Eloquence Quotes

The purpose of education is to teach a defense against eloquence.

I said something idiotic like, as [William] Shakespeare says, "Action is eloquence," and the judge just frowned at me and gave me a couple weeks in jail.

Continuous eloquence is tedious.

True eloquence makes light of eloquence. True morality makes light of morality.

Eloquence is the painting of thought.

Give a wise man an honest brief to plead and his eloquence is no remarkable achievement.

Love and businesse teach eloquence.

So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence.

Yep.” Eloquence ’R’ Us. When in trouble, keep it monosyllabic—safer that way.

What the people call eloquence is the facility some persons have of speaking alone and for a long time, aided by extravagant gestures, a loud voice, and powerful lungs.

A man avails himself of the truth so long as it is serviceable; but he seizes on what is false with a passionate eloquence as soon as he can make a momentary use of it.

Borrowed eloquence, if it contains as good stuff, is as good as own eloquence

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

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

Eloquence is heard; poetry is overheard ... All poetry is of the nature of the soliloquy.

What manly eloquence could produce such an effect as woman's silence?

If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary.

Nothing is so difficult to believe that oratory cannot make it acceptable, nothing so rough and uncultured as not to gain brilliance and refinement from eloquence.

from you, my dear Erasmus, let me obtain this request, that just as I bear with your ignorance in these matters, so you in turn will bear with my lack of eloquence.

swearing is, as I have said, learning to the ignorant, eloquence to the blockhead, vivacity to the stupid, and wit to the coxcomb.

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

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

There is eloquence in screaming.

Jesus Christ opposed with earnest eloquence the panic fears and hateful superstitions which have enslaved mankind for ages.

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

Eloquence is vehement simplicity.

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.

Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us.

Poetry is the eloquence of verse.

Wit is, in fact, the eloquence of indifference.

In the modesty of fearful duty, I read as much as from the rattling tongue of saucy and audacious eloquence.

In such business Action is eloquence, and the eyes of th’ ignorant More learned than the ears.

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

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

The Biblical language was so deeply embedded in the great man's mind that it became his normal way of speaking.

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

Eloquence.— We need both what is pleasing and what is real, but that which pleases must itself be drawn from the true.

Radite na tome da budete elokventni.Vecina njih zna samo da prica, mnogo vise nego sto treba.

To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.

Joel Cairo: You always have a very smooth explanation ready.Sam Spade: What do you want me to do, learn to stutter?

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

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

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!

in prayer, God does 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.

poets. have the toughest jobin the universe-of turning silenceinto eloquence.

A coalescence of verbose convolution, veering on imperceptibility, impinges upon a plain proclamation an apparent profundity.

The truth is the very definition of excellence.

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

So Shakespeare stole