Eloquence Quotes

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

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

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

Eloquence: saying the proper thing and stopping.

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

Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one.

Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love, With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art.

Seldom do people discern eloquence under a threadbare cloak

When Gold argues the cause, eloquence is impotant.

It is the heart which inspires eloquence.

Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.

Men, unlike mockingbirds, have the capacity for systematic self-delusion. We echo each other with equal precision, equal eloquence, equal assurance.

In Silence there is eloquence.

Pow'r above pow'rs! O heavenly eloquence! That with the strong rein of commanding words, Dost manage, guide, and master th' eminence Of men's affections, more than all their swords!

Great eloquence we cannot get, except from human genius.

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

Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable.

False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.

Eloquence is the poetry of prose.

True eloquence forgoes 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.

Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.

Manner, as much as matter, constitutes eloquence.

Not by mere eloquence, nor by handsome appearance, does a man become good-natured, should he be jealous, selfish and deceitful.

Prayer is not eloquence but earnestness.

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

But listen to me first and swear an oath to use all your eloquence and strength to look after me and protect me.

Oh, for eloquence to plead the cause of China, for a pencil dipped in fire to paint the condition of this people.

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

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

Genuine laughter is true eloquence and more effective than speech

Every blade of grass is a blade of grace, a grace note in God's single Song. Nature is not blind and dumb. Nature is eloquent. Human science is blind and dumb if it does not hear this eloquence.

Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.

Wisdom and eloquence are not always united.

The worshipful father and first founder and embellisher of ornate eloquence in our English, I mean Master Geoffrey Chaucer.

Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.

Eloquence is the child of knowledge.

True eloquence scorns eloquence.

There should be in eloquence that which is pleasing and that which is real; but that which is pleasing should itself be real.

The less there is of eloquence, the more there is of love.

One who has accumulated virtue will certainly also possess eloquence; but he who has eloquence doe not necessarily possess virtue.

Eloquence is the art of saying as little as possible but making it sound as much as possible.

Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.

Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook the arsenal, and fulmin'd over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne.

By a certain fate, great acts, and great eloquence have most commonly gone hand in hand, equalling and honoring each other in the same ages.

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

Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies.

Copiousness of words, however ranged, is always false eloquence, though it will ever impose on some sort of understandings.

Eloquence is an engine invented to manage and wield at will the fierce democracy, and, like medicine to the sick, is only employed in the paroxysms of a disordered state.

A silent address is the genuine eloquence of sincerity.