A genial and cultured Arab, Ameen Rihani, whose English is perfect and whose eloquence is astounding. He will discuss with equal eagerness… — Kenneth Williams Copy Share Image
What is called eloquence in the forum is commonly found to be rhetoric in the study. The orator yields to the inspiration… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ opposed with earnest eloquence the panic fears and hateful superstitions which have enslaved mankind for ages. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“Why are you here?" "'Here' as in your bedroom, or 'here' as in the great, spiritual question of our purpose here on… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“Eloquence is painted thought, and thus those who, after having painted it, add somewhat more, make a picture, not a portrait.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Abruptness is an eloquence in parting, when spinning out the time is but the weaving of new sorrow. — John Suckling Copy Share Image
It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
A man is reputed to have thought and eloquence; he cannot, for all that, say a word to his cousin or his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Eloquence is heard; poetry is overheard ... All poetry is of the nature of the soliloquy. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent. — Martial Copy Share Image
I've often thought, I'm nobody. Why would God answer my prayer? But God's not impressed by eloquence; he's impressed by our longing… — Stormie Omartian Copy Share Image
Two things happened. The creative side of my career was harmed. When I'd sit down and write under the influence of coke,… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
The ambition of superior sensibility and superior eloquence disposes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time, and communicate it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Great is the power of Eloquence; but never is it so great as when it pleads along with nature, and the culprit… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
There is no talent so pernicious as eloquence to those who have it under command. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Joel Cairo: You always have a very smooth explanation ready. Sam Spade: What do you want me to do, learn to stutter? — Dashiell Hammett Copy Share Image
What the people call eloquence is the facility some persons have of speaking alone and for a long time, aided by extravagant… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
true influence over another comes not from a moments eloquence nor from any happily chosen word, but from the accumulation of a… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
swearing is, as I have said, learning to the ignorant, eloquence to the blockhead, vivacity to the stupid, and wit to the… — Mary Collyer Copy Share Image
Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The pleasure of eloquence is in greatest part owing often to the stimulus of the occasion which produces it- - to the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The longer I live, the more I have come to value the gift of eloquence. Every American youth, if he desires for… — George Frisbie Hoar Copy Share Image
