Best 95 quotes in «eloquence quotes» category

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

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 is the essential thing in a speech, not information.

Eloquence is the poetry of prose.

Fluency avoids hard thoughts.

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

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

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.

Forensics is eloquence and reduction.

Fortify yourself against seductive eloquence.

He spoke with more eloquence than wisdom.

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

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

I am not as eloquent as Stephane Dion.

I grew intoxicated with my own 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.

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

Love and businesse teach eloquence.

Philosophy may be dodged, eloquence cannot.

Poetry is the eloquence of verse.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

True eloquence scorns eloquence.

True eloquence forgoes eloquence.

When Gold argues the cause, eloquence is impotant.

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

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