A moment of eloquence enthralls us. An hour's worth leaves…

Fluency avoids hard thoughts.

— Mason Cooley

Eloquence is relative. One can no more pronounce on the eloquence of any composition than the wholesomeness of a medicine, without knowing for whom…

— Richard Whately

Your eloquence should be the servant of the ideas in your head. Your rule might be this: If a sentence, no matter how excellent,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.

— Anonymous

Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of a portrait.

— Blaise Pascal

Philosophy may be dodged, eloquence cannot.

— Edgar Quinet

Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“What is called eloquence in the forum is commonly found to be rhetoric in the study.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Forensics is eloquence and reduction.

— Gertrude Stein

“Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Among all the valuable things of this world, the word is the most precious. For in the word one can find a light which…

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

[T]here are, at bottom, basically two ways to order social affairs, Coercively, through the mechanisms of the state - what we can call political…

— Ed Crane

Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things!

— Michel de Montaigne

There should be in eloquence that which is pleasing and that which is real; but that which is pleasing should itself be real.

— Blaise Pascal