If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves. — Rumi Copy Share Image
He has oratory who ravishes his hearers while he forgets himself. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
One who has accumulated virtue will certainly also possess eloquence; but he who has eloquence doe not necessarily possess virtue. — Confucius Copy Share Image
In the modesty of fearful duty, I read as much as from the rattling tongue of saucy and audacious eloquence. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Wherever there is persuasion, there is rhetoric, and wherever there is rhetoric, there is meaning. — Kenneth Burke Copy Share Image
Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
You're a fine fastidious young man, as proud as a lion, as gentle as a girl. You'd make a good catch for… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Our common future is badly served when the eloquence of our attack on the other fellow exceeds the energy with which we… — Clarence Francis Copy Share Image
An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Eloquence is an engine invented to manage and wield at will the fierce democracy, and, like medicine to the sick, is only… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Founders v. Bush brings the wisdom and eloquence of the Founding Fathers back to the people, while unmasking the fraudulent PR machine… — Jim Hightower Copy Share Image
He bent and laid his lips on her hands, which were cold and lifeless. She drew them away, and he turned to… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Eloquence is relative. One can no more pronounce on the eloquence of any composition than the wholesomeness of a medicine, without knowing… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Every blade of grass is a blade of grace, a grace note in God's single Song. Nature is not blind and dumb.… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Concerning the utility of Rhetoric, it is to be observed that it divides itself into two; first, whether Oratorical skill be, on… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Eloquence, to produce her full effect, should start from the head of the orator, as Pallas from the brain of Jove, completely… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Our relationship was convoluted and was mired in cross-cultural vicissitude.Our promising friendship faltered after she became a supermodel.What prejudice could not destroy… — Fidelis O Mkparu Copy Share Image
Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“Why are you here?" "'Here' as in your bedroom, or 'here' as in the great, spiritual question of our purpose here on… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“The right eloquence needs no bell to call the people together, and no constable to keep them. It draws the children from… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I've just come to my room, Livy darling, I guess this was the memorable night of my life. By George, I never… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Rhetoric is the counterpart of logic; since both are conversant with subjects of such a nature as it is the business of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“I try to think of things to say but nothing comes, and if something did come I probably couldn’t say it. This… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
There is eloquence in the tongueless wind, and a melody in the flowing brooks and the rustling of the reeds beside them,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“Thus the pleasure that a noble temple gives us is only in part owing to the temple. It is exalted by the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Philosophy will tell you what to say, eloquence will tell you how to say it — Marcus Cornelius Fronto Copy Share Image
“And eloquence, Henry Mackie says, is really all any of us can hope for.” — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
Beautiful eyes in the face of a handsome woman are like eloquence to speech. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things! — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
What manly eloquence could produce such an effect as woman's silence? — Jules Michelet Copy Share Image
