In painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter your manner. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence. — Homer Copy Share Image
There is no talent so pernicious as eloquence to those who have it under command. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
“The Biblical language was so deeply embedded in the great man's mind that it became his normal way of speaking.” — Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
“The sole object of Logic is the guidance of one's own thoughts: the communication of those thoughts to others falls under the… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell Copy Share Image
The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs;… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
true influence over another comes not from a moments eloquence nor from any happily chosen word, but from the accumulation of a… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
You have witchcraft in your lips, there is more eloquence in a sugar touch of them than in the tongues of the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
This is that eloquence the ancients represented as lightning, bearing down every opposer; this the power which has turned whole assemblies into… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The arts of speech are rhetoric and poetry. Rhetoric is the art of transacting a serious business of the understanding as if… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
If something's public then it seems like the important thing is the person in that public. And the notion of rhetoric. I… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
I am to consider the many advantages arising from a frequent use of oaths, curses, and imprecations. In the first place, this… — Mary Collyer Copy Share Image
No man with a genius for legislation has appeared in America. They are rare in the history of the world. There are… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A thunder-storm!—the eloquence of heaven, When every cloud is from its slumber riven, Who hath not paused beneath its hollow groan, And… — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image
“In my opinion, it was chiefly owing to their deep contemplation in their silent retreats in the days of youth that the… — Francis Assikinack Copy Share Image
“True eloquence is irresistible. It charms by its images of beauty, it enforces an argument by its vehement simplicity. Orators whose speeches… — Albert Ellery Bergh Copy Share Image
Can the real Constitution be restored? Probably not. Too many Americans depend on government money under programs the Constitution doesn't authorize, and… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
“The peculiar circumstances arising out of the fall of the Syracusan tyranny seem to have produced the first practitioners of the art… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Eloquence is painted thought, and thus those who, after having painted it, add somewhat more, make a picture, not a portrait.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, eloquence, or learning; and these three last have never converted any. — Frederick William Faber Copy Share Image
Thou didst, in strains of eloquence refin'd, Inflame the soul, and captivate the mind. — Phillis Wheatley Copy Share Image
Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent. — Martial Copy Share Image
Whoever has received knowledge and eloquence in speech from God should not be silent or secretive but demonstrate it willingly. When a… — Marie de France Copy Share Image
Silence is one great art of conversation. He is not a fool who knows when to hold his tongue; and a person… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Creative expression requires an ability to work with feelings and channel them. Frustration, dissatisfaction, and even a sense of desperation may help… — Shaun McNiff Copy Share Image
I have carefully and regularly perused the Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that the volume contains more sublimity, purer morality, more… — William Jones Copy Share Image
Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in which the message is… — Edwin H Friedman Copy Share Image
Rhetoric completes the tools of learning. Dialectic zeros in on the logic of things, of particular systems of thought or subjects. Rhetoric… — William Blake Copy Share Image
from you, my dear Erasmus, let me obtain this request, that just as I bear with your ignorance in these matters, so… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“... eloquence is merely the product of intelligence. History is not shaped by men of genius. It is shaped by men of… — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko Copy Share Image
None but those who have loved can be supposed to understand the oratory of the eye, the mute eloquence of a look,… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm, eloquence produces conviction for the moment; but it is only by truth to Nature and the everlasting institutions of… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
He that makes himself famous by his eloquence, justice or arms illustrates his extraction, let it be never so mean; and gives… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
In pulpit eloquence, the grand difficulty lies here--to give the subject all the dignity it so fully deserves, without attaching any importance… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
