Prends l'e loquence et tords-lui son cou! Take eloquence and break its neck! — Paul Verlaine Copy Share Image
A moment of eloquence enthralls us. An hour's worth leaves us stupefied. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk. — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is at least as much eloquence in the voice, eyes, and air of a speaker as in his choice of words. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
In such business Action is eloquence, and the eyes of th’ ignorant More learned than the ears. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
To lose one's health renders science null, are inglorious, strength unavailing, wealth useless, and eloquence powerless. — Herophilos Copy Share Image
My heart always timidly hides itself behind my mind. I set out to bring down stars from the sky, then, for fear… — Edmond Rostand Copy Share Image
The art of saying well what one thinks is different from the faculty of thinking. The latter may be very deep and… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
I speak as briefly as possible because too much harm has already been done with irresponsible words of bitterness and selfish political… — Margaret Chase Smith Copy Share Image
In discourse more sweet; For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense. Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The eloquence of one stimulates all the rest, some up to the speaking-point, and all others to a degree that makes them… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Everyone in their life has his own particular way of expressing life's purpose - the lawyer his eloquence, the painter his palette,… — Gino Bartali Copy Share Image
No amount of scholastic attainment, of able and profound exposition of brilliant and stirring eloquence can atone for the absence of a… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
Rhetoric is rooted in an essential function of language itself, a function that is wholly realistic and continually born anew: the use… — Kenneth Burke Copy Share Image
Thich Nhat Hanh has the ability to express some of the most profound teachings of interdependence and emptiness I've ever heard. With… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
But the mark of American merit in painting, in sculpture, in poetry, in fiction, in eloquence, seems to be a certain grace… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself; when consciously he makes himself the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In our country and in our times no man is worthy the honored name of statesman who does not include the highest… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
“In silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and watch how the pattern improves." "You suppose you are the trouble But you are… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“[Giordano] Bruno died, despised and suffering, after eight years of agony. From that moment, his works have attracted interest, and he has… — Dorothea Singer Copy Share Image
It had that comfortably sprung, lived-in look that library books with a lively circulation always get; bent page corners, a dab of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Finally, everybody agrees that no one pursuit can be successfully followed by a man who is preoccupied with many things-eloquence cannot, nor… — Anonymous Copy Share Image