“You must speak straight so that your words may go as sunlight into our hearts.” — Cochise Copy Share Image
In such business Action is eloquence, and the eyes of th’ ignorant More learned than the ears. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
True eloquence makes light of eloquence. True morality makes light of morality. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk. — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No amount of scholastic attainment, of able and profound exposition of brilliant and stirring eloquence can atone for the absence of a… — David Brainerd 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
“Eloquence.— We need both what is pleasing and what is real, but that which pleases must itself be drawn from the true.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Copiousness of words, however ranged, is always false eloquence, though it will ever impose on some sort of understandings. — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
He is an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy, lofty things impressively, and moderate things temperately. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
If toes had eyes, then I could see how my feet know where to go, but toes are blind. And how is… — Jane Roberts Copy Share Image
Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
The bucolic mind of East Barsetshire took warm delight in the eloquence of the eminent personage who represented them, but was wont… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Rhetoric is rooted in an essential function of language itself, a function that is wholly realistic and continually born anew: the use… — Kenneth Burke Copy Share Image
Exactness is first obtained, and afterwards elegance. But diction, merely vocal, is always in its childhood. As no man leaves his eloquence… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I speak as briefly as possible because too much harm has already been done with irresponsible words of bitterness and selfish political… — Margaret Chase Smith Copy Share Image
The eloquence of one stimulates all the rest, some up to the speaking-point, and all others to a degree that makes them… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“[Giordano] Bruno died, despised and suffering, after eight years of agony. From that moment, his works have attracted interest, and he has… — Dorothea Singer Copy Share Image
There is something in the eloquence of the pulpit, when it is really eloquence, which is entitled to the highest praise and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man. There is one of whom we took no note, but on a certain occasion… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
“I've just come to my room, Livy darling, I guess this was the memorable night of my life. By George, I never… — Mark Twain 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
We can speak of politics, ethics, and in this way, speak about the world. But at the same time, it's always in… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
Spirituality is best manifested on the ground, not in the air. Rapturous day-dreams, flights of heavenly fancy, longings to see the Invisible,… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image