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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 Victor Hugo Ralph Waldo Emerson William C. Bryant Mason Cooley William Hazlitt Benjamin Disraeli Marcus Cornelius Fronto Andre Gide Martial John Adams Richard McCabe Confucius George Herbert Tacitus Patrick Jones Marcus Tullius Cicero Walter Savage Landor Mary Wortley Montagu Rumi Clarence Francis John Ruskin Gertrude Stein Edgar Allan Poe Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quintilian Ilona Andrews Joseph Addison Mark Twain Ben Jonson Francois Delsarte Paul Verlaine Michel de Montaigne
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

5.
Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
Gertrude Stein

6.
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

8.
Continuous eloquence wearies.
Blaise Pascal

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Fluency avoids hard thoughts.
Mason Cooley

10.
In Silence there is eloquence.
Rumi

11.
Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.
Edgar Allan Poe

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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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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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It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
Quintilian

18.
Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
Blaise Pascal

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

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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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Eloquence is the poetry of prose.
William C. Bryant

22.
Manner, as much as matter, constitutes eloquence.
Francois Delsarte

23.
Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.
Victor Hugo

24.
Prayer is not eloquence but earnestness.
Hannah More

25.
Eloquence is to the sublime what the whole is to the part.
Jean de la Bruyere

26.
Wisdom and eloquence are not always united.
Victor Hugo

27.
True eloquence forgoes eloquence.
Andre Gide

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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

31.
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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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

37.
There is no eloquence without a man behind it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

38.
There is not only an art,
but an eloquence in it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

39.
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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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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A moment of eloquence enthralls us. An hour's worth leaves us stupefied.
Mason Cooley

47.
I am not as eloquent as Stephane Dion.
Marc Garneau

48.
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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True eloquence makes light of eloquence. True morality makes light of morality.
Blaise Pascal