“Whether it's trying to convince others that something is more true, more virtuous, or more desirable--all communication is rhetoric in action.” — Leonard Koren Copy Share Image
“The finest eloquence is that which gets things done; the worst is that which delays them.” — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
Kindness in thought leads to wisdom. Kindness in speech leads to eloquence. Kindness in action leads to love. — Laozi Copy Share Image
What we need is not more learning, not more eloquence, not more persuasion, not more organization, but more power from the Holy… — John Stott Copy Share Image
Give a wise man an honest brief to plead and his eloquence is no remarkable achievement. — Euripides Copy Share Image
I've often thought, I'm nobody. Why would God answer my prayer? But God's not impressed by eloquence; he's impressed by our longing… — Stormie Omartian 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
Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love, With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There is something in the quality of the French mind to which I have always felt a reluctant kinship. They are the… — Corra May Harris Copy Share Image
A man is reputed to have thought and eloquence; he cannot, for all that, say a word to his cousin or his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Of the modern critics, although I disagree with almost everything she says, I admire Mary McCarthy's eloquence and social observation in 'Sights… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
The gusto of one, the indignation of the other; the challenge of the one party, the response of the other; the eloquence… — Theodore White Copy Share Image
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Say she rail; why, I'll tell her plain She sings as sweetly as a nightingale. Say that she frown; I'll say she… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Nothing is so difficult to believe that oratory cannot make it acceptable, nothing so rough and uncultured as not to gain brilliance… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid… — Jean de la Bruyere 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
Cuvier had even in his address & manner the character of a superior Man, much general power & eloquence in conversation &… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
Poetry is only the highest eloquence of passion, the most vivid form of expression that can be given to our conception of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Rhetoric is useful because the true and the just are naturally superior to their opposites, so that, if decisions are improperly made,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It's not 'natural' to speak well, eloquently, in an interesting, articulate way. People living in groups, families, communes say little - have… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
It does not require great art, or magnificently trained eloquence, to prove that Christians should tolerate each other. I, however, am going… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Nothing is so improving to the temper as the study of the beauties either of poetry, eloquence, music, or painting. — David Hume Copy Share Image
For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man's nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Men, unlike mockingbirds, have the capacity for systematic self-delusion. We echo each other with equal precision, equal eloquence, equal assurance. — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
No words suffice the secret soul to show, For truth denies all eloquence to woe. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
I admire Obama, and I like him. I think he has a great deal of talent. He should be applauded for his… — John McCain Copy Share Image
By a certain fate, great acts, and great eloquence have most commonly gone hand in hand, equalling and honoring each other in… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Extemporaneous and oral harangues will always have this advantage over those that are read from a in manuscript: every burst of eloquence… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Curran grinned and my heart made a little jump. I didn’t expect that. “That’s it? That’s your witty comeback?” “Yep.” Eloquence ’R’… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
Pow'r above pow'rs! O heavenly eloquence! That with the strong rein of commanding words, Dost manage, guide, and master th' eminence Of… — Samuel Daniel Copy Share Image
Fine declamation does not consist in flowery periods, delicate allusions of musical cadences, but in a plain, open, loose style, where the… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The influence exercised over the human mind by apt analogies is and has always been immense. Whether they translate an established truth… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I wish that friendship should have feet, as well as eyes and eloquence. It must plant itself on the ground, before it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Since we want not emancipation from impulse but clarification of impulse, the duty of rhetoric is to bring together action and understanding… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
In any piece of rhetorical discourse, one rhetorical term overcomes another rhetorical term only by being nearer to the term which stands… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
The most characteristic concern of rhetoric [is] the manipulation of men's beliefs for political ends…the basic function of rhetoric [is] the use… — Kenneth Burke Copy Share Image
A liar is a man who does now know how to deceive, a flatterer one who only deceives fools: he who knows… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
No erudition, no purity of diction, no width of mental outlook, no flowers of eloquence, no grace of person can atone for… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
A genial and cultured Arab, Ameen Rihani, whose English is perfect and whose eloquence is astounding. He will discuss with equal eagerness… — Kenneth Williams Copy Share Image
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