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Eloquence Quotes

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Thou didst, in strains of eloquence refin'd, Inflame the soul, and captivate the mind.
Phillis Wheatley

You eloquently stirred the spirit and enraptured the intellect.
Authors on Eloquence Quotes: Blaise Pascal Ralph Waldo Emerson Victor Hugo William Hazlitt Benjamin Disraeli Mason Cooley William C. Bryant Joseph Addison Ilona Andrews Mark Twain Ben Jonson Francois Delsarte Paul Verlaine Michel de Montaigne Joshua Reynolds Hannah More Alphonse de Lamartine Jean de la Bruyere Thomas Starr King Frank Bettger William Zinsser Phillis Wheatley Lyman Beecher Jules Michelet Marc Garneau Ambrose Bierce Joan Miro Richard Cecil Charles Perrault Heinrich Heine Winston Churchill Plautus Martial
2.
What I am seeking... is a motionless movement, something equivalent to what is called the eloquence of silence.
Joan Miro

3.
Eloquence is logic on fire.
Lyman Beecher

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Our common future is badly served when the eloquence of our attack on the other fellow exceeds the energy with which we cooperate with them.
Clarence Francis

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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
Gertrude Stein

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Take eloquence and wring its neck.
Paul Verlaine

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

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Continuous eloquence wearies.
Blaise Pascal

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Fluency avoids hard thoughts.
Mason Cooley

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

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In Silence there is eloquence.
Rumi

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Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves.
William Hazlitt

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Great eloquence we cannot get, except from human genius.
Thomas Starr King

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There is an art in silence, and there is an eloquence in it too.
Frank Bettger

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It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
Quintilian

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Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
Blaise Pascal

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Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable.
William Hazlitt

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Courage easily finds its own eloquence.
Plautus

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Eloquence: saying the proper thing and stopping.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

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Prayer is not eloquence but earnestness.
Hannah More

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Eloquence is to the sublime what the whole is to the part.
Jean de la Bruyere

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Wisdom and eloquence are not always united.
Victor Hugo

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True eloquence forgoes eloquence.
Andre Gide

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Eloquence is the poetry of prose.
William C. Bryant

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Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.
Victor Hugo

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Manner, as much as matter, constitutes eloquence.
Francois Delsarte

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

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

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

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

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There is no eloquence without a man behind it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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Eloquence is the child of knowledge.
Benjamin Disraeli

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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.
Tacitus

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

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True eloquence scorns eloquence.
Blaise Pascal

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Philosophy will tell you what to say, eloquence will tell you how to say it
Marcus Cornelius Fronto

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There is no eloquence which does not agitate the soul.
Walter Savage Landor

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

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Continued eloquence is wearisome.
Blaise Pascal

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Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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I am not as eloquent as Stephane Dion.
Marc Garneau

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They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]
Martial

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

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

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COMPULSION, n. The eloquence of power.
Ambrose Bierce