Borrowed eloquence, if it contains as good stuff, is as good as own eloquence — John Adams Copy Share Image
And how moving is the eloquence of the untaught when it is the heart that is speaking! — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes. — Homer Copy Share Image
I said something idiotic like, as [William] Shakespeare says, "Action is eloquence," and the judge just frowned at me and gave me… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary. — Robert Fitzgerald 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
He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
As a preacher of the Gospel, our late venerable Bishop must have been heard, to form an adequate conception of his superior… — John Strachan Copy Share Image
It is true that despite occasional gleams of Churchillian eloquence he [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] usually spoke poorly. He was far more effective… — William Manchester Copy Share Image
Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The Lord is no respector of persons, and will give success to all who work for it. If l can only impress… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
By eloquence I understand those appeals to our moral perceptions that produce emotion as soon as they are uttered. This is the… — Kobe Bryant Copy Share Image
Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
Thus rhetoric, it seems, is a producer of persuasion for belief, not for instruction in the matter of right and wrong ...… — Plato 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
But the mark of American merit in painting, in sculpture, in poetry, in fiction, in eloquence, seems to be a certain grace… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He draws us to Himself by grace, by example, by power, by lovingness, by beauty, by pardon, and above all by the… — Frederick William Faber Copy Share Image
I have often come across convinced adepts of Greek mythology who mock our faith under the pretext that we do not say… — Theodoret Copy Share Image
Neither numbers nor powers nor wealth nor learning nor eloquence nor anything else will prevail, but purity, living the life, in one… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I think public intellectuals have a responsibility - to be self-critical on the one hand, to do serious, nuanced work rigorously executed;… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“{ When Abraham Lincoln was 26 years old in 1835, he wrote a defense of Thomas Paine 's deism; a political associate,… — Roy Basler Copy Share Image
“This was the unbounded power of eloquence—of words—of burning noble words. There were no practical hints to interrupt the magic current of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
As the base rhetorician uses language to increase his own power, to produce converts to his own cause, and to create loyal… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
What manly eloquence could produce such an effect as woman's silence? — Jules Michelet Copy Share Image
Yep.” Eloquence ’R’ Us. When in trouble, keep it monosyllabic—safer that way. — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things! — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Beautiful eyes in the face of a handsome woman are like eloquence to speech. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“And eloquence, Henry Mackie says, is really all any of us can hope for.” — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image