Best 95 quotes in «eloquence quotes» category

Why are you here?" "'Here' as in your bedroom, or 'here' as in the great, spiritual question of our purpose here on this planet? If you're asking me whether this is all some cosmic coincidence or if there's a greater meta-ethical purpose to life, well, that's a puzzler for the ages. I mean, modern-day reductionism is clearly a fallacious argument, but-," -"I'm going back to bed." -"I'm here because Hodge reminded me it's your birthday.

You must speak straight so that your words may go as sunlight into our hearts.

You are the king no doubt, but in one respect, at least, I am your equal: the right to reply. I claim that privilege too. I am not your slave. I serve Apollo. I don't need Creon to speak for me in public. So, you mock my blindness? Let me tell you this. You with your precious eyes, you're blind to the corruption in your life, to the house you live in, those you live with- who are your parents? Do you know? All unknowing you are the scourge of your own flesh and blood, the dead below the earth and the living here above, and the double lash of your mother and your father's curse will whip you from this land one day, their footfall treading you down in terror, darkness shrouding your eyes that now can see the light! Soon, soon, you'll scream aloud - what haven won't reverberate? What rock of Cithaeron won't scream back in echo? That day you learn the truth about your marriage, the wedding-march that sang you into your halls, the lusty voyage home to the fatal harbor! And a crowd of other horrors you'd never dream will level you with yourself and all your children. There. Now smear us with insults - Creon, myself and every word I've said. No man will ever be rooted from the earth as brutally as you.

Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none.

Abruptness is an eloquence in parting, when spinning out the time is but the weaving of new sorrow.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.

Continuous eloquence is tedious.

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

Eloquence invites us to bring some part of ourselves to the transaction.

Eloquence dwells quite as much in the hearts of the hearers as on the lips of the orator.

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy.

Eloquence is to the sublime what the whole is to the part.

Eloquence is vehement simplicity.

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

Eloquence is the poetry of prose.

Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.

Eloquence is relative. One can no more pronounce on the eloquence of any composition than the wholesomeness of a medicine, without knowing for whom it is intended.

Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative.

Forensics is eloquence and reduction.

Fluency avoids hard thoughts.

He has oratory who ravishes his hearers while he forgets himself.

Fortify yourself against seductive eloquence.

Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves.

He spoke with more eloquence than wisdom.

I grew intoxicated with my own eloquence.

I am not as eloquent as Stephane Dion.

Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.

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.

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

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

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

Love and businesse teach eloquence.

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

Philosophy may be dodged, eloquence cannot.

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.

Poetry is the eloquence of verse.

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

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

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

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

The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.

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

Take eloquence and wring its neck.

There is eloquence in screaming.

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

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

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