Declamation Quotes

• Fine declamation does not consist in flowery periods, delicate allusions of musical cadences, but in a plain, open, loose style, where the periods are long and obvious, where the same thought is often exhibited in several points of view.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Views, Long, Musical

  Oliver Goldsmith (1856). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Comprising His Poems, Comedies, Essays, and Vicar of Wakefield”, p.281

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• El aire del Nuevo Mundo parece favorable al arte de la declamación.

  Joseph Conrad

  Arte, Aire, Mundo

  "Nostromo". Libro de Joseph Conrad, Primera Parte: La plata de la mina, Cap. 6, 1904.

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• El argumento más sólido no producirá más convicción en una cabeza vacía que la declamación más superficial; como una pluma y una guinea caen con igual velocidad en el vacío.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Caída, Aspiradoras, Velocidad

  Charles Caleb Colton (1849). "Lacon: O, Muchas Cosas en Pocas Palabras: Address--to Those who Think", p.5

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• Las organizaciones sindicales se forman, no para emplear el esfuerzo combinado en un objetivo común, sino para entregarse a la declamación y la denuncia, y sobre todo para proporcionar una vida fácil a algunos funcionarios que no quieren trabajar.

  William Graham Sumner

  Higiene, Organización

  William Graham Sumner (1903). "What Social Classes Owe to Each Other", p.40, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Wise, Art, Moments

  Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.), Charles Caleb Colton (1861). “Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son on men and manners. To which are added, selections from Colton's 'Lacon'.”, p.194

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• In every revolution there intrude, at the side of its true agents, men of a different stamp; some of them survivors of and devotees to past revolutions, without insight into the present movement, but preserving popular influence by their known honesty and courage, or by the sheer force of tradition; others mere brawlers, who, by dint of repeating year after year the same set of stereotyped declamations against the government of the day, have sneaked into the reputation of revolutionists of the first water They are an unavoidable evil: with time they are shaken off.

  Karl Marx

  Honesty, Past, Men

  Karl Marx, David McLellan (2000). “Karl Marx: Selected Writings”, p.594, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The truth is, after all the declamations we have heard, that the Constitution is itself, in every rational sense, and to every useful purpose, A BILL OF RIGHTS.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Rights, Purpose, Bills

  James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay (2016). “The Federalist Papers: The Making of the US Constitution”, p.137, Arcturus Publishing

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• De Bardo, a Bardo, la frígida Precaución se arrastró,
  hasta que la declamación rugió, mientras la pasión dormía.

  Samuel Johnson

  Drama, Passion, Bards

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.: D., with an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.551

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• So I cradle this average violin that knows
  Only forgotten showtunes, but argues
  The possibility of free declamation anchored
  To a dull refrain.

  John Ashbery

  Music, Average, Dull

  John Ashbery (1986). "Selected Poems", Penguin Group USA

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• There is in every breast a sensibility to marks of honor, of favor, of esteem, and of confidence, which, apart from all considerations of interest, is some pledge for grateful and benevolent returns. Ingratitude is a common topic of declamation against human nature; and it must be confessed, that instances of it are but too infrequent and flagrant both in public and in private life. But the universal and extreme indignation which it inspires, is itself a proof of the energy and prevalence of the contrary sentiment.

  James Madison

  Grateful, Inspire, Honor

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.281, Coventry House Publishing

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• No sé por qué alguien que no sea un niño de escuela en su declamación se quejaría de la Mancomunidad de Roma, que se hizo grande sólo por la miseria del resto de la humanidad. Los romanos, como otros, tan pronto como fueron ricos, se corrompieron; y en su corrupción vendieron las vidas y las libertades de ellos mismos y de los demás.

  Samuel Johnson

  School, Boys, Rome

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.”, p.473

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• La doctrina de los alimentos tiene un gran significado ético y político. El alimento se convierte en sangre, la sangre se convierte en corazón y cerebro, pensamientos y cosas de la mente. La alimentación humana es la base de la cultura y el pensamiento humanos. ¿Quieres mejorar una nación? Dadle, en lugar de declamaciones contra el pecado, mejores alimentos. El hombre es lo que come [Der Mensch ist, was er isst].

  Ludwig Feuerbach

  Food, Heart, Science

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• Were I to be angry at men being fools, I could here find ample room for declamation; but, alas! I have been a fool myself; and why should I be angry with them for being something so natural to every child of humanity?

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Children, Men, Humanity

  Oliver Goldsmith (1835). “His Works”, p.168

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• Las mentes de los jóvenes son llevadas perpetuamente a la historia de Grecia y Rime o a Gran Bretaña; los muchachos repiten constantemente las declamaciones de Demóstenes y Cicerón, o los debates sobre alguna cuestión política en el Parlamento británico.

  Noah Webster

  Education, Boys, Political

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• Sí, arremete contra el juego, es un tema rico y ofrece una noble declamación. Id, predicad contra ello en la ciudad, encontraréis una congregación en cada taberna.

  George Edward Moore

  Cities, Taverns, Noble

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• Sólo los hombres de fuerza moral y mental, de una consideración patriótica por la relación de las dos razas, pueden ser de verdadero servicio como ministros en el Sur. Menos teología y más fraternidad humana, menos declamación y más sentido común y amor por la verdad, deben ser las calificaciones del nuevo ministerio que salvará a la raza de los males de la falsa enseñanza.

  Fannie Barrier Williams

  Real, Teaching, Patriotic

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• Whatever evils either reason or declamation have imputed to extensive empire, the power of Rome was attended with some beneficial consequences to mankind; and the same freedom of intercourse which extended the vices, diffused likewise the improvements of social life.

  Edward Gibbon

  Rome, History, Evil

  Edward Gibbon (2015). “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire:”, p.100, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I could wish there were a treaty made between the French and the English theatres, in which both parties should make considerableconcessions. The English ought to give up their notorious violations of the unities, and all their massacres, racks, dead bodies, and mangled carcasses, which they so frequently exhibit upon their stage. The French should engage to have more action, and less declamation, and not to cram and to crowd things together to almost a degree of impossibility from a too scrupulous adherence to the unities.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Giving Up, Party, Unity

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.248, Oxford Paperbacks

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• El lujo, o el refinamiento en los placeres y comodidades de la vida, se había supuesto durante mucho tiempo la fuente de toda corrupción en el gobierno, y la causa inmediata de la facción, la sedición, las guerras civiles y la pérdida total de la libertad. Por lo tanto, era considerado universalmente como un vicio, y era objeto de declamación para todos los satíricos y moralistas severos.

  David Hume

  War, Loss, Luxury

  David Hume (1751). “An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals”, p.30

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• When we play an unaccompanied Bach suite we may compare ourselves to an actor in Shakespeare's day, creating scenery which did not exist at all, through the power of declamation and suggestion. So in Bach. There is but one voice -- and many voices have to be suggested.

  Pablo Casals

  Voice, Creating, Play

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• It is true that some secluded intellectuals in their esoteric circles talk differently. They proclaim the priority of what they call eternal absolute values and feign in their declamations—not in their personal conduct—a disdain of things secular and transitory. But the public ignores such utterances. The main goal of present-day political action is to secure for the respective pressure group memberships the highest material well-being. The only way for a leader to succeed is to instill in people the conviction that his program best serves the attainment of this goal.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Pressure Groups, Circles, Goal

  Ludwig Von Mises (1963). "La acción humana: tratado de economía".

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