Eloquence Quotes

Continuous eloquence wearies.

— Blaise Pascal

Eloquence may set fire to reason.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Take eloquence and wring its neck.

— Paul Verlaine

Do I know what rhetorical means?

— Homer

Eloquence is the child of knowledge.

— Benjamin Disraeli

A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

— Heinrich Heine

Action is eloquence.

— William Shakespeare

Every man is eloquent once in his life.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I may be deprived of eloquence, but my mind can never be a dumb.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Eloquence the soul, song charms the senses.

— John Milton

He spoke with more eloquence than wisdom.

— Anonymous

The less there is of eloquence, the more there is of love.

— Charles Perrault

In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.

— Rumi

He has oratory who ravishes his hearers while he forgets himself.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.

— David Lloyd George

Philosophy may be dodged, eloquence cannot.

— Edgar Quinet

It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens…

— Tacitus

In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary.

— Robert Fitzgerald

Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.

— Thomas Carlyle

I said something idiotic like, as [William] Shakespeare says, "Action is eloquence," and the judge just frowned at me and gave me…

— Bill Ayers

Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.

— Homer

The worshipful father and first founder and embellisher of ornate eloquence in our English, I mean Master Geoffrey Chaucer.

— William Caxton

Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us.

— Stephen King

Eloquence, when in its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection.

— David Hume

The eloquence of a scientist is clarity; scientific truth is always more luminous when its beauty is unadorned than when it is…

— Claude Bernard

Previous technologies have expanded communication. But the last round may be contracting it. The eloquence of letters has turned into the unnuanced…

— Rebecca Solnit

The hands of those I meet are dumbly eloquent to me. The touch of some hands is an impertinence. I have met…

— Helen Keller

Astronomy was born of superstition; eloquence of ambition, hatred, falsehood, and flattery; geometry of avarice; physics of an idle curiosity; and even…

— Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

“Eloquence, like maturity, is a thing only developed through experience. Anyone can use words and use them well; only those devoted to…

— Luke Alistar

And then he danced,-all foreigners excel the serious Angels in the eloquence of pantomime;-he danced, I say, right well, with emphasis, and…

— Lord Byron

No living orator would convince a grocer that coffee should be sold without chicory; and no amount of eloquence will make an…

— Anthony Trollope

La vraie e loquence se moque de l'e loquence, la vraie morale se moque de la morale. True eloquence has notime foreloquence,…

— Blaise Pascal

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

Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below. Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle…

— Joseph Addison

The receipt to make a speaker, and an applauded one too, is short and easy. Take common sense quantum sufficit; add a…

— Lord Chesterfield

Senator Obama is a gifted and eloquent young man who can do great things for our country in the years ahead. But…

— Joe Lieberman

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

The House is composed of very good men, not shining, but honest and reasonably well-informed, and in time will be found to…

— Fisher Ames

There is something in the eloquence of the pulpit, when it is really eloquence, which is entitled to the highest praise and…

— Jane Austen

“Why are you here?" "'Here' as in your bedroom, or 'here' as in the great, spiritual question of our purpose here on…

— Cassandra Clare