Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read their unpublished manuscripts or undergo the humiliation of public speaking, usually on remote Midwestern campuses.
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
Public speaking? I speak to myself on the street!
My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Don't whip with a switch that has the leaves on, if you want it to tingle.
To be a person is to have a story to tell.
In oratory the greatest art is to hide art.
If there's anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public.
"Why doesn't the fellow who says, "I'm no speechmaker," let it go at that instead of giving a demonstration? "
Charles was most comfortable by himself or, if that wasn't possible, with his pack in the wild. Talking for hours in a crowded auditorium was not on any list of things he enjoyedâ€”or things he was good at. At least no one had died. Yet.

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