Eloquence Quotes

Eloquence is the poetry of prose.

William Cullen Bryant

The manner of your speaking is full as important as the matter as more people have ears to be tickled than understandings to judge.

Lord Chesterfield

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

Samuel L. Clemens

Thoughts that breathe and words that burn.

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

La Rochefoucauld

True eloquence is irresistible. It charms by its images of beauty, it enforces an argument by its vehement simplicity. Orators whose speeches are "full of sound and fury, signifying nothing," only prevail where truth is not understood, for knowledge and simplicity are the foundation of all true eloquence. Eloquence abounds in beautiful and natural images, sublime but simple conceptions, in passionate but plain words. Burning words appeal to the emotions as well as to the intellect; they stir the soul and touch the heart.

Albert Ellery Bergh

You must speak straight so that your words may go as sunlight into our hearts.

Cochise ("Like Ironweed")

The truth is the very definition of excellence.

Loron-Jon Stokes

Eloquence.— We need both what is pleasing and what is real, but that which pleases must itself be drawn from the true.

Eloquence is painted thought, and thus those who, after having painted it, add somewhat more, make a picture, not a portrait.

Choose your words meticulously and then let them rumble up from some deep furnace of conviction.

poets. have the toughest jobin the universe-of turning silenceinto eloquence.

Surely silence can sometimes be the most eloquent reply.

Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S

The Biblical language was so deeply embedded in the great man's mind that it became his normal way of speaking.

Elton Trueblood

I want to hear you wound my lovely language with your rough barbarian tongue.

Patrick Rothfuss

Anything you say at this point cannot be trusted. You know I am well and truly angry, so you are in the grip of fear. This means I cannot trust any word you say, as it comes from fear. You are clever, and charming, and a liar. I know you can bend the world with your words. So I will not listen.

Patrick Rothfuss

I try to think of things to say but nothing comes, and if something did come I probably couldn't say it. This is my great obstacle, the biggest of all the boulders littering my path. In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the highest cathedral ceilings and paint my thoughts. But when I open my mouth, it all collapses.

[Giordano] Bruno died, despised and suffering, after eight years of agony. From that moment, his works have attracted interest, and he has long been recognized as an important figure in the development of modern thought. Nevertheless, few are familiar with the many and often bewildering pages of his writings. His Italian works have their place in the history of Italian literature. The Latin works in prose and verse are much more bulky and diffuse, but the few who grapple with them are rewarded by passages of great beauty and eloquence.

Dorothea Singer

I may be deprived of eloquence, but my mind can never be a dumb.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Joel Cairo: You always have a very smooth explanation ready.Sam Spade: What do you want me to do, learn to stutter?

Dashiell Hammett

To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Radite na tome da budete elokventni.Vecina njih zna samo da prica,mnogo vise nego sto treba.

Tamara Stamenkovic

In my opinion, it was chiefly owing to their deep contemplation in their silent retreats in the days of youth that the old Indian orators acquired the habit of carefully arranging their thoughts.They listened to the warbling of birds and noted the grandeur and the beauties of the forest. The majestic clouds—which appear like mountains of granite floating in the air—the golden tints of a summer evening sky, and the changes of nature, possessed a mysterious significance.All of this combined to furnish ample matter for reflection to the contemplating youth.

Francis Assikinack