Eloquent Quotes

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

The most eloquent seems to stutter.

They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.

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

When I wear high heels I have a great vocabulary and I speak in paragraphs. I'm more eloquent. I plan to wear them more often.

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.

Every man is eloquent once in his life.

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.

Ulysses was not comely, but he was eloquent, Yet he fired two goddesses of the sea with love

There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.

He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine.

My harmony is passable but is usually made more eloquent at the hands of Steve Hamilton.

I am not the most eloquent guy in the world.

We looked at each other for the last time; nothing is as eloquent as nothing.

No man was ever eloquent by trying to be eloquent, but only by being so.

The heavens are nobly eloquent of the Deity, and the most magnificent heralds of their Maker's praise.

The tide of visitors will float slowly about the bottom of the valley as harmless scum collecting in hotel and saloon eddies, leaving the rocks and falls eloquent as ever.

He says a million things without saying a word. I have never heard a more eloquent silence.

He is an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy, lofty things impressively, and moderate things temperately.

The eloquent voice of our century uttered, shortly before leaving the world, a warning cry against the "Anglo- Saxon contagion.

It is easy to defend the innocent; but who is eloquent enough to defend the guilty?

In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.

The most obscene symbol in human history is the Cross; yet in its ugliness it remains the most eloquent testimony to human dignity.

It is the doctrine of the popular music-masters, that whoever can speak can sing. So, probably, every man is eloquent once in his life. Our temperaments differ in capacity of heat, or

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Their silent wounds have speech More eloquent than men; Their tones can deeper reach Than human voice or pen.

Their guilt made me eloquent because I was not its victim.

Tokyo Sonata speaks to us, with feeling and passion, as one of the most eloquent statements on the world today that we are likely to see in this moviegoing year.

Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

I've always felt that the placement of a man's testicles is an eloquent argument against intelligent design.

For me, who only desire to become wise, not more learned or eloquent, these logical or Aristotelian dispositions of parts are of no use.

Though someday we may become as eloquent as Sahban, but we might also miss the essence of the Forgiving One.

In religion all words are dirty words. Anybody who gets eloquent about Buddha, or God, or Christ, ought to have his mouth washed out with carbolic soap.

America remained a land of promise for lovers of freedom. Even Byron, at a moment when he was disgusted with Napoleon for not committing suicide, wrote an eloquent stanza in praise of Washington.

Listen, my words have never been described as the most eloquent, but I stick by the passion behind them. I do hate Donald Trump.

The countenance is more eloquent than the tongue.

To become a lawyer you must discard your ethics and become an eloquent devil that views justice as god.

I am not as eloquent as Stephane Dion.

My feeling is, music is a more eloquent international language than Coca-Cola or McDonalds.

Praying is simple. Use the words that you know. You don't have to be eloquent, just sincere and reverent.

Silence is often the most eloquent answer to our critics.

Musically Bob [Dylan] is a primitive. He's not a Gershwin, or somebody that uses eloquent music terms.

Bill Clinton was relentless, eloquent and truly charming.

I need not shout my faith. Thrice eloquent Are quiet trees and the green listening sod; Hushed are the stars, whose power is never spent; The hills are mute: yet how they speak of God!

Nothing is as eloquent as nothing.

I am metaphysical inasmuch as I am looking for a non-eloquent painting, immobile and of atmosphere, which feeds on static situations.

I would feel pretty embarrassed if I was doing what I do and I wasn't at least attempting the eloquent translation of the human experience in some way.

I saw "Forrest Gump" several times. I personally thought it was Tom Hanks' greatest role and I think it was one of the most eloquent love stories of our time.

I am feeling easy now, and you will well understand that after undergoing pain this ease is opening paradise. Invalids must be excused for being eloquent about themselves.

I'm a Ford, not a Lincoln. My addresses will never be as eloquent as Mr. Lincoln's. But I will do my very best to equal his brevity and his plain speaking.