“What is called eloquence in the forum is commonly found to be rhetoric in the study.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Ut mos totus rhetoricus problemati terminus? (When will all the rhetorical questions end?)” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We cannot all hope to combine the pleasing qualities of good looks, brains, and eloquence. — Homer Copy Share Image
[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.] — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
What I am seeking... is a motionless movement, something equivalent to what is called the eloquence of silence... — Joan Miro Copy Share Image
Abruptness is an eloquence in parting, when spinning out the time is but the weaving of new sorrow. — John Suckling Copy Share Image
Eloquence resides as much in the tone of voice, in the eyes, and in the expression of the face, as in the… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Thus rhetoric, it seems, is a producer of persuasion for belief, not for instruction in the matter of right and wrong ...… — Plato Copy Share Image
Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The Lord is no respector of persons, and will give success to all who work for it. If l can only impress… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
Thare is no chance of hurrying bussiness here like in the legeslature of a State thare is such a desposition here to… — Davy Crockett Copy Share Image
The 1960s was a period when writers in the West began to be aware of the extraordinary eloquence and popular attraction of… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
President Obama certainly has an impressive gift for eloquence, and he has a global vision, as did my father. He doesn't rattle… — Martin Luther King III Copy Share Image
The ambition of superior sensibility and superior eloquence disposes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time, and communicate it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Tis not for golden eloquence I pray, A godlike tongue to move a stony heart-- Methinks it were full well to be… — Frederick Tennyson Copy Share Image
To what or whom does Lizzie Harris direct the imperative title of her startling first book, Stop Wanting? To the reader, the… — Lynn Emanuel Copy Share Image
Among all the valuable things of this world, the word is the most precious. For in the word one can find a… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
[T]here are, at bottom, basically two ways to order social affairs, Coercively, through the mechanisms of the state - what we can… — Ed Crane Copy Share Image
True spiritual knowledge has sometimes flourished most grandly in some who were without eloquence and almost illiterate. And this is very clearly… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
A regular council was held with the Indians, who had come in on their ponies, and speeches were made on both sides… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“He never even talked of love; but there are modes of making it more eloquent than language, and which convey it subtilely… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
If children had teachers for judgment and eloquence just as they have for languages, if their memory was exercised less than their… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Secretary of state Colin Powell himself eloquently pointed out the many ways to get at the root of this problem... economic, diplomatic,… — Barbara Lee Copy Share Image
Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
“Whether it's trying to convince others that something is more true, more virtuous, or more desirable--all communication is rhetoric in action.” — Leonard Koren Copy Share Image
They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Eloquence; it requires the pleasant and the real; but the pleasant must itself be drawn from the true. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ opposed with earnest eloquence the panic fears and hateful superstitions which have enslaved mankind for ages. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well, though pomposity and banality have not. — Edwin Newman Copy Share Image
Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
. . . if [writing] lift you from your feet with the great voice of eloquence, then the effect is to be… — Marsilio Ficino Copy Share Image
Eloquence is heard; poetry is overheard ... All poetry is of the nature of the soliloquy. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Let eloquence be flung to the dogs rather than souls be lost. What we want is to win souls. They are not… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
There should be in eloquence that which is pleasing and that which is real; but that which is pleasing should itself be… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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