Eloquence Quotations

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

Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.

The 1960s was a period when writers in the West began to be aware of the extraordinary eloquence and popular attraction of the Russian poets such as Yevtushenko and Voznesensky - oppositional figures who could draw crowds. The Russian poets recited from memory as a matter of course.

True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.

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

Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.

War, in our country, ought never to be resorted to but when it is clearly justifiable and necessary; so much so as not to require the aid of logic to convince our understanding nor the ardour of eloquence to inflame our passions. There are many reasons why this country should never resort to it but for causes the most urgent and necessary.

Love makes a subtle man out of a crude one, it gives eloquence to the mute, it gives courage the cowardly and makes the idle quick and sharp.

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

I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.

I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen and sixteen hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.

It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns

Philosophy may be dodged, eloquence cannot.

True eloquence forgoes eloquence.

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

Yes, I heard my people singing!--in the glow of parlor coal-stove and on summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft and Sunday morning pews--and my soul was filled with their harmonies. Then, too, I heard these songs in the very sermons of my father, for in the Negro's speech there is much of the phrasing and rhythms of folk-song. The great, soaring gospels we love are merely sermons that are sung; and as we thrill to such gifted gospel singers as Mahalia Jackson, we hear the rhythmic eloquence of our preachers, so many of whom, like my father, are masters of poetic speech.

But he had eloquence and charm, as well as a cutting intellect that made his views and perspectives impossible to ignore.

Prayer is not eloquence but earnestness.

The finest eloquence is that which gets things done; the worst is that which delays them.

Eloquence: saying the proper thing and stopping.

Forensics is eloquence and reduction.

There is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.

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

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

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

Love and businesse teach eloquence.

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

There is eloquence in screaming.

Courage easily finds its own eloquence.

Fluency avoids hard thoughts.

A moment of eloquence enthralls us. An hour's worth leaves us stupefied.

Eloquence is logic on fire.

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

It is the heart which inspires eloquence.

I am not as eloquent as Stephane Dion.

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

Take eloquence and wring its neck.

If you are feeling something, then Shakespeare felt it and wrote about it - and wrote about it so eloquently.

Eloquence is vehement simplicity.

It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.

Great eloquence we cannot get, except from human genius.

Eloquence is the poetry of prose.

Poetry is the eloquence of verse.

There is no eloquence which does not agitate the soul.

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

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.

True eloquence scorns eloquence.

Continuous eloquence is tedious.

Continuous eloquence wearies.

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

Eloquence; it requires the pleasant and the real; but the pleasant must itself be drawn from the true.

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

Eloquence is the painting of thought ...

Continued eloquence is wearisome.

Eloquence is the child of knowledge.

I grew intoxicated with my own eloquence.

To feel your subject thoroughly and to speak without fear, are the only rules of eloquence

COMPULSION, n. The eloquence of power.

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

I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me.

There is no talent so pernicious as eloquence to those who have it under command.

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

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence - it is force.

And how moving is the eloquence of the untaught when it is the heart that is speaking!

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

Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy.

There is no eloquence without a man behind it.

Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative.

Wisdom and eloquence are not always united.

Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.

There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation.

In Silence there is eloquence.

He spoke with more eloquence than wisdom.