Eloquence Quotes

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

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

Eloquence is logic on fire.

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.

Forensics is eloquence and reduction.

Take eloquence and wring its neck.

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

Continuous eloquence wearies.

Fluency avoids hard thoughts.

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

In Silence there is eloquence.

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

Great eloquence we cannot get, except from human genius.

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

It is the heart which inspires eloquence.

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

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

Courage easily finds its own eloquence.

Eloquence: saying the proper thing and stopping.

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

Prayer is not eloquence but earnestness.

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

Wisdom and eloquence are not always united.

True eloquence forgoes eloquence.

Eloquence is the poetry of prose.

Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.

Manner, as much as matter, constitutes eloquence.

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

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

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

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

There is no eloquence without a man behind it.

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

Eloquence is the child of knowledge.

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.

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

True eloquence scorns eloquence.

Philosophy will tell you what to say, eloquence will tell you how to say it

There is no eloquence which does not agitate the soul.

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

Continued eloquence is wearisome.

Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy.

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

Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative.

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

I am not as eloquent as Stephane Dion.

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

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

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

COMPULSION, n. The eloquence of power.