1.
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.
2.
What I am seeking... is a motionless movement, something equivalent to what is called the eloquence of silence.
Joan Miro
4.
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
7.
True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.
Heinrich Heine
10.
Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.
Edgar Allan Poe
11.
In Silence there is eloquence.
Rumi
12.
Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves.
William Hazlitt
14.
There is an art in silence, and there is an eloquence in it too.
Frank Bettger
15.
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
Quintilian
17.
Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable.
William Hazlitt
18.
Courage easily finds its own eloquence.
Plautus
20.
Eloquence dwells quite as much in the hearts of the hearers as on the lips of the orator.
Alphonse de Lamartine
21.
Prayer is not eloquence but earnestness.
Hannah More
23.
Wisdom and eloquence are not always united.
Victor Hugo
28.
It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.
Joshua Reynolds
29.
One who has accumulated virtue will certainly also possess eloquence; but he who has eloquence doe not necessarily possess virtue.
Confucius
30.
There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation.
Victor Hugo
31.
If you are feeling something, then Shakespeare felt it and wrote about it - and wrote about it so eloquently.
Richard McCabe
33.
Copiousness of words, however ranged, is always false eloquence, though it will ever impose on some sort of understandings.
Mary Wortley Montagu
35.
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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There is no talent so pernicious as eloquence to those who have it under command.
Joseph Addison
45.
And how moving is the eloquence of the untaught when it is the heart that is speaking!
Mark Twain
47.
They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]
Martial
48.
Eloquence; it requires the pleasant and the real; but the pleasant must itself be drawn from the true.
Blaise Pascal
49.
A moment of eloquence enthralls us. An hour's worth leaves us stupefied.
Mason Cooley