Eloquent Quotations

The dinosaur's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good, an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.

Many critics, when trying to praise a short-story collection, will say that it has the heft and scope of a good novel. But for me, one of the highest compliments you can pay a novel is to say that it has the rich texture and eloquent detail of a good story collection.

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

The problem with people who live in a world of speeches and books and theories is they don't know how to fix things in the real world when they go wrong. They feign ignorance, blame others, and make another eloquent speech.

Flowers are an easy, eloquent expression of love at a time when words can seem clumsy and inadequate.

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

I am not the most eloquent guy in the world.

Make no mistake, inside that tall, handsome, elegant and eloquent exterior, inside that, beat the heart of a fierce but principled competitor.

Her pure and eloquent blood / Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, / That one might almost say, her body thought.

Her travel writing was characterized by a high moral purpose and an overwhelming sense of justice. What distinguishes her journalism is her eloquent outrage and commitment to fair play.

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

We have lost an eloquent voice for human rights and human dignity and a champion for the least among us.

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

Nothing is as eloquent as nothing.

Even though it is snowing out, people can come and get into the spring spirit. The pieces are upbeat and so moving. The overall spring look of the performers is spectacular, it's going to be a beautiful and eloquent spring Mozart performance.

There is nothing so eloquent as a rattlesnake's tail

The passions are the only advocates which always persuade. They are a natural art, the rules of which are infallible; and the simplest man with passion will be more persuasive than the most eloquent without.

I know they're upsetting a good part of the Toronto city council and I know they're upsetting the mayor, but frankly, I don't have any eloquent way to put it: We don't care, we need some sort of presence.

Dark alley, near midnight, silent door, loud knock, moment of silence, footsteps groping down stairs, rattle of key in lock, door opened -- and there lamp held high above his head, stands your dark Celtic velvet inspired mystic eloquent refined W.B.Y. himself, the William Blake of this smaller generation.

They definitely get very eloquent sometimes. I'm always so amazed at how insightful they are.

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 course that I have uniformly pursued, ever since I became a missionary, has been rather peculiar. In order to become an acceptable and eloquent preacher in a foreign language, I deliberately abjured my own. When I crossed the river, I burnt my ships.

It's one of the most emotionally eloquent performances of the year. It shows how Hollywood has just scratched the surface of her talent.

We've got a group of (U.S.) guys now who are colorful, smart, eloquent when they speak and are performing at the highest levels. I think it's time sponsors start changing their minds when they see the support we get internationally and nationally. ... I want to change people's opinions of our event.

The most eloquent way I could offer my respect is with a moment of silence.

It is the heart which makes people eloquent

Whom has not the inspiring bowl made eloquent? [Lat., Foecundi calices quem non fecere disertum.]

Glamour looks eloquent but seldom talks.

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

The countenance is more eloquent than the tongue.

I am not as eloquent as Stephane Dion.

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

I have never heard a more eloquent silence.

When the crowd of your admirers is shouting, "Bravo! Hear, hear!" it is not you, Pomponius, but your dinner that is eloquent

The Pause; that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, however so felicitous, could accomplish it.

The pause-that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence, which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it

These reasonings are unconnected: "I am richer than you, therefore I am better"; "I am more eloquent than you, therefore I am better." The connection is rather this: "I am richer than you, therefore my property is greater than yours;" "I am more eloquent than you, therefore my style is better than yours." But you, after all, are neither property nor style.

Only begin, and you will become eloquent of yourself.

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

Every man is eloquent once in his life.

Silence is more eloquent than words.