A moment of eloquence enthralls us. An hour's worth leaves us stupefied. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Prends l'e loquence et tords-lui son cou! Take eloquence and break its neck! — Paul Verlaine Copy Share Image
It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk. — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The right eloquence needs no bell to call the people together, and no constable to keep them. — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
swearing is, as I have said, learning to the ignorant, eloquence to the blockhead, vivacity to the stupid, and wit to the… — Mary Collyer Copy Share Image
I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
True eloquence makes light of eloquence. True morality makes light of morality. — Blaise Pascal 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
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
Everyone in their life has his own particular way of expressing life's purpose - the lawyer his eloquence, the painter his palette,… — Gino Bartali Copy Share Image
The eloquence of one stimulates all the rest, some up to the speaking-point, and all others to a degree that makes them… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
I speak as briefly as possible because too much harm has already been done with irresponsible words of bitterness and selfish political… — Margaret Chase Smith Copy Share Image
In discourse more sweet; For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense. Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more… — John Milton 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
Thich Nhat Hanh has the ability to express some of the most profound teachings of interdependence and emptiness I've ever heard. With… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Over his illustrious career, John Harris has explored the most challenging bioethical questions with insight, engaging wit, and eloquence. In Enhancing Evolution,… — Ezekiel Emanuel Copy Share Image
If then a practical end must be assigned to a University course, I say it is that of training good members of… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
Did I say that she was beautiful? I was wrong. Beauty is too tame a notion; it evokes only faces in magazines.… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
There prevails among men of letters, an opinion, that all appearance of science is particularly hateful to Women; and that therefore whoever… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found. False Eloquence, like the Prismatic… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
We must recognize the eloquence of our passions and refuse to be taken in. Instead of saying, 'That false friend always did… — Emile Chartier Copy Share Image
