No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Short words are best, and old words when short are best of all.” — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
When I write fiction, I create characters whose views are not my own, and I allow them to be eloquent in defense… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Yet has not Man wept at the sounds? And are not his tears eloquent understanding? — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Many of the most eloquent people I have ever met work in lab coats every day. — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
When I wear high heels I have a great vocabulary and I speak in paragraphs. I'm more eloquent. I plan to wear… — Meg Ryan Copy Share Image
He is an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy, lofty things impressively, and moderate things temperately. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Meditation is silence, energising and fulfilling. Silent is the eloquent expression of the inexpressible. — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
It was one of God's jokes that such a dumb mind had been put in such an eloquent body. — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
Harley Race was eloquent in his moves - everything made sense, like a hand in a glove. — Shane Douglas Copy Share Image
No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
Tokyo Sonata speaks to us, with feeling and passion, as one of the most eloquent statements on the world today that we… — Andrew Sarris Copy Share Image
The great reason why we have so little good preaching is that we have so little piety. To be eloquent one must… — Charles Spurgeon 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
That it should still be necessary, at this late stage in the senility of the human race to argue that women have… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Many critics, when trying to praise a short-story collection, will say that it has the heft and scope of a good novel.… — Gary Krist Copy Share Image
I am attracted to ellipsis, to the unsaid, to suggestion, to eloquent, deliberate silence. The unsaid, for me, exerts great power: often… — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
The point here is what makes human beings different from other creatures is our ability to use language. We can use words… — Flemming Rose Copy Share Image
Matt Mason must be declared the poet laureate of the Midwest! No other native son celebrates the overlooked America, its unsung citizens… — Rigoberto Gonzalez Copy Share Image
The plain truth is we are going to die. Here I am, a teeny spec surrounded by boundless space and time, arguing… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
It is also naïve empiricism to provide, in support of some argument, series of eloquent confirmatory quotes by dead authorities. By searching,… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
True words aren't eloquent; eloquent words aren't true. Wise men don't need to prove their point; men who need to prove their… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“He was a student - such things as happened to him, happen sometimes to students. He was a German - such things… — Mary Elizabeth Braddon Copy Share Image
After all, in both languages we were dealing in large measure not with English and French, but with Scots and Irish, Bretons… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
After a cup of tea (two spoonsful for each cup, and don't let it stand more than three minutes,) it says to… — Jerome K. Jerome 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
Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart. — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
