Best 95 quotes in «eloquence quotes» category

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

I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.

It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.

La vraie e loquence se moque de l'e loquence, la vraie morale se moque de la morale. True eloquence has notime foreloquence, true morality has no time for morality.

Love and businesse teach eloquence.

Philosophy may be dodged, eloquence cannot.

Poetry is the eloquence of verse.

Prends l'e  loquence et tords-lui son cou! Take eloquence and break its neck!

Profane eloquence is transfered from the bar, where Le Maitre, Pucelle, and Fourcroy formerly practised it, and where it has become obsolete, to the Pulpit, where it is out of place.

Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance.

Take eloquence and wring its neck.

Silence, when nothing need be said, is the eloquence of discretion.

The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society

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

The eloquence of one stimulates all the rest, some up to the speaking-point, and all others to a degree that makes them good receivers and conductors, and they avenge themselves for their enforced silence by increased loquacity on their return.

The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.

The nature of our constitution makes eloquence more useful and more necessary in this country than in any other in Europe.

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

There is eloquence in screaming.

There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation.

Tis base to plead the unhappy prisoner's cause, With eloquence that's bought.

They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]

Thou didst, in strains of eloquence refin'd, Inflame the soul, and captivate the mind.

True eloquence scorns eloquence.

True eloquence forgoes eloquence.

Wisdom and eloquence are not always united.

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

When Gold argues the cause, eloquence is impotant.

When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.

Yep.” Eloquence ’R’ Us. When in trouble, keep it monosyllabic—safer that way.

But then her formality quickly melted away, the veil of adulthood she wore temporarily as a costume."-p. 273

Anything you say at this point cannot be trusted. You know I am well and truly angry, so you are in the grip of fear. This means I cannot trust any word you say, as it comes from fear. You are clever, and charming, and a liar. I know you can bend the world with your words. So I will not listen.

A picture can utter nothing to describe itself. - On the Eloquence of Pictures

A rhetorician is capable of speaking effectively against all comers, whatever the issue, and can consequently be more persuasive in front of crowds about… anything he likes.

basic rule of negotiation is to know what you want, what you need to walk away with in order to be whole.

Eloquence in public assemblies is not the surest road to fame and preferment, at least unless it be used with great caution, very rarely, and with great reserve.

Eloquence.— We need both what is pleasing and what is real, but that which pleases must itself be drawn from the true.

Eloquence is painted thought, and thus those who, after having painted it, add somewhat more, make a picture, not a portrait.

Good communication has just a little to do with eloquence. It's character that makes it more successful. Harsh words nicely articulated are sharp enough to kill your brand!

Everybody knows that it makes no sense that you send a kid to the emergency room for a treatable illness like asthma. They end up taking up a hospital bed. It costs when, if you, they just gave, you gave, treatment early, and they got some treatment, and uhhh a breathalyzer, or uhh, an inhalator, not a breathalyzer...

I can never bring you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace.

His speeches left the impression of an army of pompous phrases moving over the landscape in search of an idea; sometimes these meandering words would actually capture a straggling thought and bear it triumphantly as a prisoner in their midst, until it died of servitude and overwork.

I may be deprived of eloquence, but my mind can never be a dumb.

I could be eloquent were I not afraid you fellows had starved your imaginations to feed your bodies.

{Miller, who was president of American Federation of Musicians, had this to say about Robert Ingersoll at his funeral} On behalf of 15,000 professional musicians, comprising the American Federation of Musicians, permit me to extend to you our heart-felt and most sincere sympathy in the irreparable loss of the model husband, father, and friend. In him the musicians of not only this country, but of all countries, have lost one whose noble nature grasped the true beauties of our sublime art, and whose intelligence gave those impressions expression in words of glowing eloquence that will live as long as language exists.

In prayer, God doesn’t want your words, he wants your heart. He doesn’t track your eloquence, he treasures your soul.

In my opinion, it was chiefly owing to their deep contemplation in their silent retreats in the days of youth that the old Indian orators acquired the habit of carefully arranging their thoughts. They listened to the warbling of birds and noted the grandeur and the beauties of the forest. The majestic clouds—which appear like mountains of granite floating in the air—the golden tints of a summer evening sky, and the changes of nature, possessed a mysterious significance. All of this combined to furnish ample matter for reflection to the contemplating youth.

in prayer, God does want your words, he wants your heart. He doesn’t track your eloquence, he treasures your soul.

I've just come to my room, Livy darling, I guess this was the memorable night of my life. By George, I never was so stirred since I was born. I heard four speeches which I can never forget... one by that splendid old soul, Col. Bob Ingersoll, — oh, it was just the supremest combination of English words that was ever put together since the world began... How handsome he looked, as he stood on that table, in the midst of those 500 shouting men, and poured the molten silver from his lips! What an organ is human speech when it is played by a master! How pale those speeches are in print, but how radiant, how full of color, how blinding they were in the delivery! It was a great night, a memorable night. I doubt if America has seen anything quite equal to it. I am well satisfied I shall not live to see its equal again... Bob Ingersoll’s music will sing through my memory always as the divinest that ever enchanted my ears. And I shall always see him, as he stood that night on a dinner-table, under the flash of lights and banners, in the midst of seven hundred frantic shouters, the most beautiful human creature that ever lived... You should have seen that vast house rise to its feet; you should have heard the hurricane that followed. That's the only test! People might shout, clap their hands, stamp, wave their napkins, but none but the master can make them get up on their feet. {Twain's letter to his wife, Livy, about friend Robert Ingersoll's incredible speech at 'The Grand Banquet', considered to be one of the greatest oratory performances of all time}

I try to think of things to say but nothing comes, and if something did come I probably couldn't say it. This is my great obstacle, the biggest of all the boulders littering my path. In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the highest cathedral ceilings and paint my thoughts. But when I open my mouth, it all collapses.