A silent address is the genuine eloquence of sincerity.

Gentlemen, do you know what is the finest speech that I ever in my life heard or read? It is the address of Garibaldi…

— Lajos Kossuth

This is that eloquence the ancients represented as lightning, bearing down every opposer; this the power which has turned whole assemblies into astonishment, admiration…

— Oliver Goldsmith

Fine declamation does not consist in flowery periods, delicate allusions of musical cadences, but in a plain, open, loose style, where the periods are…

— Oliver Goldsmith

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