“I may be deprived of eloquence, but my mind can never be a dumb.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary. — Robert Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Tis base to plead the unhappy prisoner's cause, With eloquence that's bought. — Ovid Copy Share Image
Eloquence dwells quite as much in the hearts of the hearers as on the lips of the orator. — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
We cannot all hope to combine the pleasing qualities of good looks, brains, and eloquence. — Homer Copy Share Image
No living orator would convince a grocer that coffee should be sold without chicory; and no amount of eloquence will make an… — Anthony Trollope 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
The eloquence of a scientist is clarity; scientific truth is always more luminous when its beauty is unadorned than when it is… — Claude Bernard 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
However much we admire the orator's occasional bursts of eloquence, the noblest written words are commonly as far behind or abovethe fleeting… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The nature of our constitution makes eloquence more useful and more necessary in this country than in any other in Europe. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Do not be deceived by a man's eloquence; rather whoever fulfils trusts and refrains from impugning people's honour is a real man. — Umar Copy Share Image
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Senator Obama is a gifted and eloquent young man who can do great things for our country in the years ahead. But… — Joe Lieberman Copy Share Image
Finally, everybody agrees that no one pursuit can be successfully followed by a man who is preoccupied with many things-eloquence cannot, nor… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It had that comfortably sprung, lived-in look that library books with a lively circulation always get; bent page corners, a dab of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Remember always, in painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter will be your manner, and the fewer your words;… — John Ruskin 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
Rhetoric is useful because truth and justice are in their nature stronger than their opposites; so that if decisions be made, not… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If our eloquence be directed above the heads of our hearers, we shall do no execution. By pointing our arguments low, we… — Charles Caleb Colton 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
Among all the valuable things of this world, the word is the most precious. For in the word one can find a… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
[T]here are, at bottom, basically two ways to order social affairs, Coercively, through the mechanisms of the state - what we can… — Ed Crane Copy Share Image
Gentlemen, do you know what is the finest speech that I ever in my life heard or read? It is the address… — Lajos Kossuth Copy Share Image
To what or whom does Lizzie Harris direct the imperative title of her startling first book, Stop Wanting? To the reader, the… — Lynn Emanuel Copy Share Image
Eloquence, when at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection; but addressing itself entirely to the fancy or the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image