I just don't think people get off on language anymore. Language used to be an elevated art. It used to be for… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Yes, I heard my people singing!-in the glow of parlor coal-stove and on summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
We may put too high a premium on speech from platform and pulpit, at the bar and in the legislative hall, and… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
The hands of those I meet are dumbly eloquent to me. The touch of some hands is an impertinence. I have met… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative. Afterwards, it may warm itself until it exhales symbols of every kind and color,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Borrowed eloquence, if it contains as good stuff, is as good as own eloquence — John Adams 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
Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
None but those who have loved can be supposed to understand the oratory of the eye, the mute eloquence of a look,… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Addison writes with the ease of a gentleman. His readers fancy that a wise and accomplished companion is talking to them; so… — James Boswell 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
If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
God gave you that gifted tongue of yours, and set it between your teeth, to make known your true meaning to us,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“True eloquence is irresistible. It charms by its images of beauty, it enforces an argument by its vehement simplicity. Orators whose speeches… — Albert Ellery Bergh Copy Share Image
Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes. — Homer Copy Share Image
Creative expression requires an ability to work with feelings and channel them. Frustration, dissatisfaction, and even a sense of desperation may help… — Shaun McNiff Copy Share Image
Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one. — George Santayana 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
It is very possible to be proud of the spiritual gifts God has entrusted to us and to strut about ostentatiously, forgetting… — J. Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
