Best 95 quotes in «eloquence quotes» category

Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.

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 vehement simplicity.

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

Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy.

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

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.

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

Eloquence is the poetry of prose.

Fluency avoids hard thoughts.

Fortify yourself against seductive eloquence.

Forensics is eloquence and reduction.

He spoke with more eloquence than wisdom.

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

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

I am not as eloquent as Stephane Dion.

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

I grew intoxicated with my own eloquence.

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

Love and businesse teach eloquence.

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

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

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.

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

Philosophy may be dodged, eloquence cannot.

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

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.

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

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.

There is eloquence in screaming.

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

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.

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.

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

True eloquence scorns eloquence.

True eloquence forgoes eloquence.

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.

Wisdom and eloquence are not always united.