Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“You must speak straight so that your words may go as sunlight into our hearts.” — Cochise Copy Share Image
William F. Buckley, Jr. does not so much speak as exhale, but he exhales polysyllabically, and the results are remarkable. — Edwin Newman Copy Share Image
Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Oh, for eloquence to plead the cause of China, for a pencil dipped in fire to paint the condition of this people. — Hudson Taylor Copy Share Image
The eloquent voice of our century uttered, shortly before leaving the world, a warning cry against the "Anglo- Saxon contagion. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
True eloquence makes light of eloquence. True morality makes light of morality. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
swearing is, as I have said, learning to the ignorant, eloquence to the blockhead, vivacity to the stupid, and wit to the… — Mary Collyer Copy Share Image
If you do not feel a fervent love and profound pity for humanity, be assured that the gift of Christian eloquence has… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
Let us never forget that, to be profited, that is, to be spiritually improved in knowledge, faith, holiness, joy and love, is… — John Angell James Copy Share Image
First, in your sermons, use your logic, and then your rhetoric; Rhetoric without logic, is like a tree with leaves and blossoms,… — John Selden Copy Share Image
In oratory affectation must be avoided; it being better for a man by a native and clear eloquence to express himself than… — Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury Copy Share Image
Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The bucolic mind of East Barsetshire took warm delight in the eloquence of the eminent personage who represented them, but was wont… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
If toes had eyes, then I could see how my feet know where to go, but toes are blind. And how is… — Jane Roberts Copy Share Image
Be helpless, dumbfounded, Unable to say yes or no. Then a stretcher will come from grace to gather us up. We are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty. It… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
Whatever capital you divert to the support of a shiftless and good-for-nothing person is so much diverted from some other employment, and… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
Then I speak to her in a language she has never heard, I speak to her in Spanish, in the tongue of… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
America could carry on a two years' war by the confiscation of the property of disaffected persons, and be made happy by… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
What is the average type of a counterfeit church? A hammock, attached on one side to the cross, and, on the other,… — Joseph Cook Copy Share Image
“Everybody knows that it makes no sense that you send a kid to the emergency room for a treatable illness like asthma.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Addison writes with the ease of a gentleman. His readers fancy that a wise and accomplished companion is talking to them; so… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
