Eloquent Quotes · Page 2

In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.

— Ovid

Tears are at times as eloquent as words. [Weeping hath a voice.]

— Ovid

In an easy cause any man may be eloquent.

— Ovid

Birds are, perhaps, the most eloquent expression of reality.

— Roger Tory Peterson

... silence (can) be the most eloquent form of lying.

— Pat Conroy

One of our statesmen said, "The curse of this country is eloquent men."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have never heard a more eloquent silence.

— Laurie Halse Anderson

“the eyes are as eloquent as the tongue”

— Anonymous

No man was ever eloquent by trying to be eloquent, but only by being so.

— George Henry Lewes

For me, who only desire to become wise, not more learned or eloquent, these logical or Aristotelian dispositions of parts are of…

— Michel de Montaigne

To become a lawyer you must discard your ethics and become an eloquent devil that views justice as god.

— Kane Morgan

Sincerity, even if it speaks with a stutter, will sound eloquent when inspired.

— Eiji Yoshikawa

When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.

— Josh Billings

We looked at each other for the last time; nothing is as eloquent as nothing.

— David Mitchell

Perhaps the most eloquent of the hard virtues is courage, the disposition to encounter adversity head-on and strive to overcome it.

— Ted Malloch

A generous spirit is as eloquent in acknowledging benefits as it is bounteous in bestowing them.

— Jane Porter

Here is a book to savor?flavorful and nutritious, it sticks to the mind's ribs. The 'New Agrarianism' is about Americans re-learning how…

— Tony Hiss

Ten Little Indians once again shows [Alexie] to be not just one of the West’s best, but one of the most brilliantly…

— Ron Franscell

Voices in the forest tell of dark and twisted enchantments - as dark and twisted as the roots and grasping branches of…

— Brian Froud

Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more…

— Thomas Hobbes

But the hobbledehoy, though he blushes when women address him, and is uneasy even when he is near them, though he is…

— Anthony Trollope

Go, write it in a martial hand; be curst and brief; it is no matter how witty, so it be eloquent and…

— William Shakespeare

Wealth, my son, should never be your goal in life. Your words are eloquent but they are mere words. True wealth is…

— Og Mandino

Ocean's remarkable stories, depth of commitment, and eloquent communication make him a fantastic resource for conferences, universities, and indeed everyone who wants…

— Van Jones

Well, one of the things we're supposed to be able to do as playwrights is write from a place of empathy, get…

— Tracy Letts

It takes about ten years to make a mature dancer. The training is twofold. There is the study and practice of the…

— Martha Graham

The hands of those I meet are dumbly eloquent to me. The touch of some hands is an impertinence. I have met…

— Helen Keller

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.…

— George Washington

With Head Off & Split, Nikky Finney establishes herself as one of the most eloquent, urgent, fearless and necessary poets writing in…

— Kwame Dawes

These reasonings are unconnected: "I am richer than you, therefore I am better"; "I am more eloquent than you, therefore I am…

— Epictetus

The script is a starting point, not a fixed highway. I must look through the camera to see if what I've written…

— Michelangelo Antonioni

What if you were a teacher but had no voice to speak your knowledge? What if you had no language at all…

— Robin Wall Kimmerer

Surely silence can sometimes be the most eloquent reply.

— Anonymous

The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sometimes, to be silent is to be most eloquent.

— Charlton Heston

He--the country parson--is not witty or learned or eloquent, but holy.

— George Herbert

A sermon in shoes is often more eloquent than a sermon on paper.

— Theodore L. Cuyler

The simpler you say it, the more eloquent it is.

— August Wilson

It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.

— Martial

The countenance is more eloquent than the tongue.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater