What manly eloquence could produce such an effect as woman's silence? — Jules Michelet Copy Share Image
Borrowed eloquence, if it contains as good stuff, is as good as own eloquence — John Adams Copy Share Image
Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning. — Frederick William Faber Copy Share Image
Eloquence may be found in conversations and in all kinds of writings; it is rarely found when looked for, and sometimes discovered… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
E? loquence quipersuade par douceur, non par empire, en tyran, non en roi. Eloquence should persuade gently, not by force or like… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.” — Chinua Achebe (Author Copy Share Image
William F. Buckley, Jr. does not so much speak as exhale, but he exhales polysyllabically, and the results are remarkable. — Edwin Newman Copy Share Image
Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“You must speak straight so that your words may go as sunlight into our hearts.” — Cochise Copy Share Image
Every blade of grass is a blade of grace, a grace note in God's single Song. Nature is not blind and dumb.… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
It is true that despite occasional gleams of Churchillian eloquence he [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] usually spoke poorly. He was far more effective… — William Manchester Copy Share Image
He was created of a mother whom He created. He was carried by hands that He formed. He cried in the manger… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a preacher of the Gospel, our late venerable Bishop must have been heard, to form an adequate conception of his superior… — John Strachan Copy Share Image
What I am looking for... is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is called the eloquence of… — Joan Miro Copy Share Image
The Romans, who so coolly and so concisely mention the acts of justice which were exercised by the legions, reserve their compassion… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I just don't think people get off on language anymore. Language used to be an elevated art. It used to be for… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“We might think then of rhetorical production as an extended intentional state in which rhetoric emerges from the dynamic, ongoing intra-actions of… — Anonymous 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
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
What more ghastly image can be called up than that of a man betrayed by his body who, simply because he did… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
A regular council was held with the Indians, who had come in on their ponies, and speeches were made on both sides… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“He never even talked of love; but there are modes of making it more eloquent than language, and which convey it subtilely… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Secretary of state Colin Powell himself eloquently pointed out the many ways to get at the root of this problem... economic, diplomatic,… — Barbara Lee Copy Share Image
If children had teachers for judgment and eloquence just as they have for languages, if their memory was exercised less than their… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
True spiritual knowledge has sometimes flourished most grandly in some who were without eloquence and almost illiterate. And this is very clearly… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
“And eloquence, Henry Mackie says, is really all any of us can hope for.” — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
Philosophy will tell you what to say, eloquence will tell you how to say it — Marcus Cornelius Fronto Copy Share Image
Beautiful eyes in the face of a handsome woman are like eloquence to speech. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image