Eloquence Quotes
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Manner, as much as matter, constitutes eloquence.
— Francois Delsarte
The eloquence of the pen is just as sharp as the point of a sword.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Jesus Christ opposed with earnest eloquence the panic fears and hateful superstitions which have enslaved mankind for ages.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Silence, when nothing need be said, is the eloquence of discretion.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
There is no eloquence which does not agitate the soul.
— Walter Savage Landor
Great eloquence we cannot get, except from human genius.
— Thomas Starr King
Eloquence invites us to bring some part of ourselves to the transaction.
— William Zinsser
Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of a portrait.
— Blaise Pascal
Joel Cairo: You always have a very smooth explanation ready.Sam Spade: What do you want me to do, learn to stutter? — Dashiell Hammett
Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us.
— Stephen King
But to a higher mark than song can reach,Rose this pure eloquence. — William Wordsworth
The Biblical language was so deeply embedded in the great man's mind that it became his normal way of speaking.
— Elton Trueblood
You must speak straight so that your words may go as sunlight into our hearts.
— Cochise "Like Ironweed"
Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one.
— George Santayana
He spoke with more eloquence than wisdom.
— Winston S. Churchill
Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
— Ambrose Bierce
Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
— Francis Bacon
Spontaneous eloquence seems to me a miracle.
— Vladimir Nabokov
Eloquence may set fire to reason.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Take eloquence and wring its neck.
— Paul Verlaine
In prayer, God does want your words, he wants your heart. He doesn't track your eloquence, he treasures your soul.
— Todd Stocker
Eloquence is the child of knowledge. When a mind is full, like a wholesome river, it is also clear.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves.
— William Hazlitt
Continued eloquence is wearisome.
— Blaise Pascal
There is no eloquence without a man behind it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eloquence is to the sublime what the whole is to the part.
— Jean De La Bruyere
And in this case his great practice in it was assisted by hate, which, like love, has an eloquence of its own.
— Joseph Conrad
Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
You're a fine fastidious young man, as proud as a lion, as gentle as a girl. You'd make a good catch for the devil.
— Honore De Balzac
If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Eloquence is vehement simplicity.
— Richard Cecil
My wife has been my greatest earthly inspiration. She excels in eloquence, the poetry of words, empathy and graciousness.
— George W. Romney
For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man's nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.
— Thomas Hobbes
There is an art in silence, and there is an eloquence in it too.
— Frank Bettger
Not by mere eloquence, nor by handsome appearance, does a man become good-natured, should he be jealous, selfish and deceitful.
— Gautama Buddha
Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
— Blaise Pascal
President Kennedy's eloquence was designed to make men think; President Johnson's hammer blows are designed to make men act.
— Robert A. Caro
The finest eloquence is that which gets things done; the worst is that which delays them.
— David Lloyd George
Eloquence is logic on fire.
— Lyman Beecher
He began talking to an imagined woman, achieving an eloquence that was never his when he was face to face with anyone else.
— Brian W. Aldiss
The worshipful father and first founder and embellisher of ornate eloquence in our English, I mean Master Geoffrey Chaucer.
— William Caxton
Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.
— John Milton
Eloquence is the poetry of prose.
— William C. Bryant
In the modesty of fearful duty, I read as much as from the rattling tongue of saucy and audacious eloquence.
— William Shakespeare
Eloquence dwells quite as much in the hearts of the hearers as on the lips of the orator.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
I may be deprived of eloquence, but my mind can never be a dumb.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Thou didst, in strains of eloquence refin'd, Inflame the soul, and captivate the mind.
— Phillis Wheatley
Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.
— Adam Gopnik
Dostoevsky does not believe his own words, and he is trying to replace a lack of faith with "feeling" and eloquence.
— Lev Shestov
Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
God welcomes our prayers. He is much more concerned about our hearts than our eloquence.
— Billy Graham
Eloquence; it requires the pleasant and the real; but the pleasant must itself be drawn from the true.
— Blaise Pascal
Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
— Chinua Achebe
Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love, With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art.
— Joseph Addison
Every idea is an incitement ... eloquence may set fire to reason.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Courage easily finds its own eloquence.
— Plautus
Let me sit here, on the threshold of two worlds. Lost in the eloquence of silence.
— Jalaluddin Rumi
Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things!
— Michel De Montaigne
To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.
— Bertrand Russell
Wisdom and eloquence are not always united.
— Victor Hugo
And eloquence, Henry Mackie says, is really all any of us can hope for.
— Donald Barthelme
Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
As the grace of man is in the mind, so the beauty of the mind is eloquence.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Even a best fountain-pen cannot make a writer be a fount of eloquence, but fountains teach to sob with ecstasy.
— Lara Biyuts
Swearing is, as I have said, learning to the ignorant, eloquence to the blockhead, vivacity to the stupid, and wit to the coxcomb.
— Mary Collyer
He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence.
— Lord Chesterfield
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.
— Joseph Addison
Eloquence the soul, song charms the senses.
— John Milton
Genuine laughter is true eloquence and more effective than speech
— Mahatma Gandhi
Meaningful prayer is a matter of the heart, not the eloquence of the words.
— Elizabeth George
Eloquence is the art of saying as little as possible but making it sound as much as possible.
— Evan Esar
The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.
— Nicolas Chamfort
In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary.
— Robert Fitzgerald
Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.
— Victor Hugo