8 Benjamin Disraeli Quotes on Speech

Benjamin Disraeli quotes on speech

4. I will sit down now, but the time will come when you will hear me.

66. The harebrained chatter of irresponsible frivolity.

79. Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth.

100. Then there was a maiden speech, so inaudible, that it was doubted whether, after all, the young orator really did lose his virginity.

187. A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity who can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and glorify himself.

193. Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, they are incidental to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages.

249. Mediocrity can talk; but it is for genius to observe.

258. Whenever we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.