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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

By a certain fate, great acts, and great eloquence have most commonly gone hand in hand, equalling and honoring each other in the same ages. — John Milton

Great eloquence we cannot get, except from human genius. — Thomas Starr King

In painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter your manner. — John Ruskin

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"

Don't mistake assertiveness or eloquence for good ideas. — Susan Cain

Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I want to hear you wound my lovely language with your rough barbarian tongue. — Patrick Rothfuss

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

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order. — Francis Bacon

To lose one's health renders science null, are inglorious, strength unavailing, wealth useless, and eloquence powerless. — Herophilos

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

Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends. — Tacitus

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

We cannot all hope to combine the pleasing qualities of good looks, brains, and eloquence. — Homer

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

Eloquence, when in its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection. — David Hume

There is an art in silence, and there is an eloquence in it too. — Frank Bettger

What we need is not more learning, not more eloquence, not more persuasion, not more organization, but more power from the Holy Spirit. — John Stott

Not by mere eloquence, nor by handsome appearance, does a man become good-natured, should he be jealous, selfish and deceitful. — Gautama Buddha

Borrowed eloquence, if it contains as good stuff, is as good as own eloquence — John Adams

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

In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves. — Rumi

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

Victor was the first to speak, and when he did, it was with an eloquence and composure perfectly befitting the situation. "Holy shit. — V.E Schwab

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things. — Ben Jonson

A moment of eloquence enthralls us. An hour's worth leaves us stupefied. — Mason Cooley

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

That silence is one of the great arts of conversation is allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an art, but even an eloquence in it — Hannah More

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

There is no talent so pernicious as eloquence to those who have it under command. — Joseph Addison

Wisdom and eloquence are not always united. — Victor Hugo

One who has accumulated virtue will certainly also possess eloquence; but he who has eloquence doe not necessarily possess virtue. — Confucius

And eloquence, Henry Mackie says, is really all any of us can hope for. — Donald Barthelme

Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted. — Edgar Allan Poe

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

poets. have
the toughest job
in the universe-

of turning silence
into eloquence. — Sanober Khan

Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information. — Mark Twain

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

Men, unlike mockingbirds, have the capacity for systematic self-delusion. We echo each other with equal precision, equal eloquence, equal assurance. — Robert Ardrey

He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence. — Lord Chesterfield

It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns. — Tacitus

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

What I am seeking ... is a motionless movement, something equivalent to what is called the eloquence of silence ... — Joan Miro

Earnestness is the salt of eloquence. — Victor Hugo