Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence. — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
There is at least as much eloquence in the voice, eyes, and air of a speaker as in his choice of words. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves. — William Hazlitt 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
To lose one's health renders science null, are inglorious, strength unavailing, wealth useless, and eloquence powerless. — Herophilos Copy Share Image
Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser. — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
That silence is one of the great arts of conversation is allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Exactness is first obtained, and afterwards elegance. But diction, merely vocal, is always in its childhood. As no man leaves his eloquence… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Rhetoric is rooted in an essential function of language itself, a function that is wholly realistic and continually born anew: the use… — Kenneth Burke Copy Share Image
When we rely upon organization, we get what organization can do; when we rely upon education, we get what education can do;… — A. C. Dixon Copy Share Image
Eloquence is an engine invented to manage and wield at will the fierce democracy, and, like medicine to the sick, is only… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Founders v. Bush brings the wisdom and eloquence of the Founding Fathers back to the people, while unmasking the fraudulent PR machine… — Jim Hightower Copy Share Image
O, let my books be then the eloquence And dumb presagers of my speaking breast, Who plead for love, and look for… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty. It… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
Whatever capital you divert to the support of a shiftless and good-for-nothing person is so much diverted from some other employment, and… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
“Do you know what my daughter's nurse told her today? "In a girl's voice lies temptation - a known fact. Eloquence in… — Margaret F. Rosenthal 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
Be helpless, dumbfounded, Unable to say yes or no. Then a stretcher will come from grace to gather us up. We are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No man with a genius for legislation has appeared in America. They are rare in the history of the world. There are… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I am to consider the many advantages arising from a frequent use of oaths, curses, and imprecations. In the first place, this… — Mary Collyer Copy Share Image
A thunder-storm!—the eloquence of heaven, When every cloud is from its slumber riven, Who hath not paused beneath its hollow groan, And… — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image
“Writing was what saved the stutterer. It saved him the trouble of speaking.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.” — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Silence, when nothing need be said, is the eloquence of discretion. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
“There is an art i n silence, and there is an eloquence i n it too.” — Frank Bettger Copy Share Image
Rhetoric is nothing but reason well dressed and argument put in order. — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
