It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to…

No erudition, no purity of diction, no width of mental outlook, no flowers of eloquence, no grace of person can atone for lack of…

— Edward McKendree Bounds

[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]

— Tacitus

Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.

— Tacitus

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