Orator Quotes

George Herbert

Isocrates

Robert Emmet

Mary Lamb

Mirra Alfassa

Elsie de Wolfe

John Bartholomew Gough

He (Sri Aurobindo) did not keep me, what could I do? I had to go. But I left my psychic being with him, and in France I was once on the point of death: the doctors had given me Up.

The Egyptians became fond of wine and bibulous; and so a way was found among them to help those who could not afford wine, namely, to drink that made from barley; they who took it were so elated that they sang, danced, and acted in every way like persons filled with wine.

A man's enemies have no power to harm him, if he is true to himself and loyal to God.

John Bartholomew Gough

Either wealth is much increased, or moderation is much decayed.

Take the word of experience, I speak the truth: inaction is safest in danger.

Silius Italicus

The word (classical) carries the implication that the works of art and literature produced in Graeco-Roman antiquity possess an absolute value, that they form the standard by which all others are to be judged.

If all who are engaged in the profession of education were willing to state the facts instead of making greater promises than they can possibly fulfill, they would not be in such bad repute with the lay- public.

A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over minds which it has corrupted or subjugated. but the difficulties of established prejudice: the man dies, but his memory lives.

I am going in now for interior decoration. By that I mean supplying objets d'art and giving advice regarding the decoration of their houses to wealthy persons who do not have the time, inclination, nor culture to do such work for themselves. It is nothing new. Women have done the same thing before.

We need not be too strict in seeing
The failings of a fellow being.

I, whenever I see thee, thirst, and holding the cup, apply it to my lips more for thy sake than for drinking.