Best 95 quotes in «eloquence quotes» category

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

Love and businesse teach 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.

Poetry is the eloquence of verse.

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.

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

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

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.

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

There is eloquence in screaming.

Philosophy may be dodged, eloquence cannot.

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

Take eloquence and wring its neck.

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

The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.

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

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

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

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

True eloquence forgoes eloquence.

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

True eloquence scorns eloquence.

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

Wisdom and eloquence are not always united.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

When Gold argues the cause, eloquence is impotant.

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.

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...

{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.

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!

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Meaningful prayer is a matter of the heart, not the eloquence of the words.

Nam eloquentiam quae admirationem non habet nullam iudico

No institution of learning of Ingersoll's day had courage enough to confer upon him an honorary degree; not only for his own intellectual accomplishments, but also for his influence upon the minds of the learned men and women of his time and generation. Robert G. Ingersoll never received a prize for literature. The same prejudice and bigotry which prevented his getting an honorary college degree, militated against his being recognized as 'the greatest writer of the English language on the face of the earth,' as Henry Ward Beecher characterized him. Aye, in all the history of literature, Robert G. Ingersoll has never been excelled -- except by only one man, and that man was -- William Shakespeare. And yet there are times when Ingersoll even surpassed the immortal Bard. Yes, there are times when Ingersoll excelled even Shakespeare, in expressing human emotions, and in the use of language to express a thought, or to paint a picture. I say this fully conscious of my own admiration for that 'intellectual ocean, whose waves touched all the shores of thought.' Ingersoll was perfection himself. Every word was properly used. Every sentence was perfectly formed. Every noun, every verb and every object was in its proper place. Every punctuation mark, every comma, every semicolon, and every period was expertly placed to separate and balance each sentence. To read Ingersoll, it seems that every idea came properly clothed from his brain. Something rare indeed in the history of man's use of language in the expression of his thoughts. Every thought came from his brain with all the beauty and perfection of the full blown rose, with the velvety petals delicately touching each other. Thoughts of diamonds and pearls, rubies and sapphires rolled off his tongue as if from an inexhaustible mine of precious stones. Just as the cut of the diamond reveals the splendor of its brilliance, so the words and construction of the sentences gave a charm and beauty and eloquence to Ingersoll's thoughts. Ingersoll had everything: The song of the skylark; the tenderness of the dove; the hiss of the snake; the bite of the tiger; the strength of the lion; and perhaps more significant was the fact that he used each of these qualities and attributes, in their proper place, and at their proper time. He knew when to embrace with the tenderness of affection, and to resist and denounce wickedness and tyranny with that power of denunciation which he, and he alone, knew how to express.