"LECTURER, n. One with his hand in your pocket, his tongue in your ear and his faith in your patience."

"ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography."

"For rhetoric, he could not open His mouth, but out there flew a trope."

"Poetry, unlike oratory, should not aim at clarity... but be dense with meaning, 'something to be chewed and digested'..."

"He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone."

"We fear that the glittering generalities of the speaker have left an impression more delightful than permanent."

"Intererit multum Davusne loquatur an heros."

"Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie…"

"Very good orators, when they are out, they will spit."

"In the tradition of popular oratory, Trash [a nickname] started a talk at random, moved confidently ahead in no parti…"