Best Elocution Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Stamerenophobia

“Oh what a to-do to die today at a minute or two to two, a thing distinctly hard to say, but harder still to do. We'll beat a tattoo at twenty to two, a rat-tat-tat tat-tat-tat tat-tat-tattoo, and the dragon will come when he hears the drum! at a minute or two to two today at a minute or two to two.”

Elocution

Author:the dragon

“[On the United States:] A nation which does not appreciate that the simple elocution exercise 'Merry Mary married hairy Harry' contains not one but three vowel sounds.”

Doe States Three Language Nations Sound Simple United United States Exercise Married Appreciate Mary Merry Vowels Elocution

Author:Jessica Mitford

“... I had a latent impression that there was something decidedly fine in Mr. Wopsle's elocution - not for old associations' sake, I am afraid, but because it was very slow, very dreary, very up-hill and down-hill, and very unlike any way in which any man in any natural circumstances of life or death ever expressed himself about anything.”

Men Way Funny Natural Fine Circumstances Humorous Sake Impression Hills Association Dreary Latent Life Or Death Elocution

Book:THE GREATEST DICKENS CLASSICS (Illustrated Edition): Oliver Twist, The Pickwick Papers, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, Hard Times, David Copperfield, A Christmas Carol, Bleak House, Little Dorrit, Our Mutual Friend, The Life of Dickens

Source: THE GREATEST DICKENS CLASSICS (Illustrated Edition): Oliver Twist, The Pickwick Papers, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, Hard Times, David Copperfield, A Christmas Carol, Bleak House, Little Dorrit, Our Mutual Friend, The Life of Dickens

“The vulgar look upon a man, who is reckoned a fine speaker, as a phenomenon, a supernatural being, and endowed with some peculiargift of Heaven; they stare at him, if he walks in the park, and cry, that is he. You will, I am sure, view him in a juster light, and nulla formidine. You will consider him only as a man of good sense, who adorns common thoughts with the graces of elocution, and the elegancy of style. The miracle will then cease.”