Apt analogies are among the most formidable weapons of the rhetorician. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Eloquence invites us to bring some part of ourselves to the transaction. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
“Writing was what saved the stutterer. It saved him the trouble of speaking.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.” — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
The worshipful father and first founder and embellisher of ornate eloquence in our English, I mean Master Geoffrey Chaucer. — William Caxton Copy Share Image
Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes. — Homer Copy Share Image
Eloquence is the art of saying as little as possible but making it sound as much as possible. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
Eloquence, when in its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection. — David Hume Copy Share Image
William F. Buckley, Jr. does not speak so much as exhale, but he exhales polysyllabically, and the results are remarkable. — Edwin Newman Copy Share Image
And how moving is the eloquence of the untaught when it is the heart that is speaking! — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Remember always, in painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter will be your manner, and the fewer your words;… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
We may put too high a premium on speech from platform and pulpit, at the bar and in the legislative hall, and… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
If our eloquence be directed above the heads of our hearers, we shall do no execution. By pointing our arguments low, we… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
However much we admire the orator's occasional bursts of eloquence, the noblest written words are commonly as far behind or abovethe fleeting… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Previous technologies have expanded communication. But the last round may be contracting it. The eloquence of letters has turned into the unnuanced… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
The hands of those I meet are dumbly eloquent to me. The touch of some hands is an impertinence. I have met… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Astronomy was born of superstition; eloquence of ambition, hatred, falsehood, and flattery; geometry of avarice; physics of an idle curiosity; and even… — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Copy Share Image
The eloquence of a scientist is clarity; scientific truth is always more luminous when its beauty is unadorned than when it is… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
It's not 'natural' to speak well, eloquently, in an interesting, articulate way. People living in groups, families, communes say little - have… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“You are the king no doubt, but in one respect, at least, I am your equal: the right to reply. I claim… — Robert Fagles Copy Share Image
However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secretion alters his features, animates… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
As the base rhetorician uses language to increase his own power, to produce converts to his own cause, and to create loyal… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
“This was the unbounded power of eloquence—of words—of burning noble words. There were no practical hints to interrupt the magic current of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“{ When Abraham Lincoln was 26 years old in 1835, he wrote a defense of Thomas Paine 's deism; a political associate,… — Roy Basler Copy Share Image
“{ Miller, who was president of American Federation of Musicians, had this to say about Robert Ingersoll at his funeral } On… — Owen Miller Copy Share Image
Neither numbers nor powers nor wealth nor learning nor eloquence nor anything else will prevail, but purity, living the life, in one… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“There is an art i n silence, and there is an eloquence i n it too.” — Frank Bettger Copy Share Image
Rhetoric is nothing but reason well dressed and argument put in order. — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Silence, when nothing need be said, is the eloquence of discretion. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The purpose of education is to teach a defense against eloquence. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
But to a higher mark than song can reach, Rose this pure eloquence. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
