Eloquent Quotes

Eloquent Quote of the day

Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.

Your example, even more than your words, will be an eloquent lesson to the world.

A good photograph is like a good hound dog, dumb, but eloquent.

Movements are as eloquent as words.

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

A sermon in shoes is often more eloquent than a sermon on paper.

In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the highest cathedral ceilings and paint my thoughts. But when I open my mouth, everything collapses.

The sermon of your life in tough times ministers to people more powerfully than the most eloquent speaker.

It is quite possible that the truest and most eloquent art is a successful fusion of both the visible and visionary worlds, each enhancing and reinforcing the other.

Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.

To the dear eye and eloquent tongue, to the soul made of fire, and the character that bends but does not break... I am ever tender and true.

Sometimes, to be silent is to be most eloquent.

A despot doesn't fear eloquent writers preaching freedom- he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.

The simpler you say it, the more eloquent it is.

O Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue.

I love to observe Christmas in quietude, humility, benevolence, charity, letting good will towards man, eloquent silence, prayer, and praise express my conception of Truth’s appearing.

We believe a scientist because he can substantiate his remarks, not because he is eloquent and forcible in his enunciation. In fact, we distrust him when he seems to be influencing us by his manner.

Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.

He--the country parson--is not witty or learned or eloquent, but holy.

The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless.

From this point forth, we shall be leaving the firm foundation of fact and journeying together through the murky marshes of memory into thickets of wildest guesswork.

Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don't know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.

... silence (can) be the most eloquent form of lying.

No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.

Eloquent testimony to the recovery powers of wild animals frequently becomes apparent from the study of skeletons housed in museums.

Birds are, perhaps, the most eloquent expression of reality.

But why wasn't I born, alas, in an age of Adjectives; why can one no longer write of silver-shedding Tears and moon-tailed Peacocks, of eloquent Death, of the Negro and star-enameled Night?

The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.

When our wagon gets stuck in the mud, God is much more likely to assist the man who gets out to push than the man who merely raises his voice in prayer—no matter how eloquent the oration.

It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.

I don't really listen to Radiohead. I listened to the albums and they just didn't move me in the way, say, John Prine does. His is just extraordinarily eloquent music.

Glamour looks eloquent but seldom talks.

An ill life will effectually drown the voice of the most eloquent ministry.

No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.

If God has given you a message, go and give it to the people as God has given it to you. It is a stupid thing to try to be eloquent.

For they had learned that true safety was to be found in long previous training, and not in eloquent exhortations uttered when they were going into action.

If language were liquid, it would be rushing in. Instead here we are in a silence more eloquent than any word could ever be.

A man will be eloquent if you give him good wine.

Sincerity, even if it speaks with a stutter, will sound eloquent when inspired.

The simplest man with passion will be more persuasive than the most eloquent without.

When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.

Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over the dignity of labor.

Tears are at times as eloquent as words. [Weeping hath a voice.]

For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.

Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking.

A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.

Every man is eloquent once in his life.

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

Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.

If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times.