Oh, for eloquence to plead the cause of China, for a pencil dipped in fire to paint the condition of this people. — Hudson Taylor Copy Share Image
The eloquent voice of our century uttered, shortly before leaving the world, a warning cry against the "Anglo- Saxon contagion. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence. — Homer Copy Share Image
Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
There is no talent so pernicious as eloquence to those who have it under command. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
In painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter your manner. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Let us never forget that, to be profited, that is, to be spiritually improved in knowledge, faith, holiness, joy and love, is… — John Angell James Copy Share Image
First, in your sermons, use your logic, and then your rhetoric; Rhetoric without logic, is like a tree with leaves and blossoms,… — John Selden Copy Share Image
In oratory affectation must be avoided; it being better for a man by a native and clear eloquence to express himself than… — Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury Copy Share Image
It is the doctrine of the popular music-masters, that whoever can speak can sing. So, probably, every man is eloquent once in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you do not feel a fervent love and profound pity for humanity, be assured that the gift of Christian eloquence has… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
The bucolic mind of East Barsetshire took warm delight in the eloquence of the eminent personage who represented them, but was wont… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“You are the king no doubt, but in one respect, at least, I am your equal: the right to reply. I claim… — Robert Fagles Copy Share Image
However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secretion alters his features, animates… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“This was the unbounded power of eloquence—of words—of burning noble words. There were no practical hints to interrupt the magic current of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
As the base rhetorician uses language to increase his own power, to produce converts to his own cause, and to create loyal… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
“{ When Abraham Lincoln was 26 years old in 1835, he wrote a defense of Thomas Paine 's deism; a political associate,… — Roy Basler Copy Share Image
“{ Miller, who was president of American Federation of Musicians, had this to say about Robert Ingersoll at his funeral } On… — Owen Miller Copy Share Image
I think public intellectuals have a responsibility - to be self-critical on the one hand, to do serious, nuanced work rigorously executed;… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Neither numbers nor powers nor wealth nor learning nor eloquence nor anything else will prevail, but purity, living the life, in one… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
“The Biblical language was so deeply embedded in the great man's mind that it became his normal way of speaking.” — Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
“Eloquence is painted thought, and thus those who, after having painted it, add somewhat more, make a picture, not a portrait.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“The peculiar circumstances arising out of the fall of the Syracusan tyranny seem to have produced the first practitioners of the art… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent. — Martial Copy Share Image
Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, eloquence, or learning; and these three last have never converted any. — Frederick William Faber Copy Share Image
Thou didst, in strains of eloquence refin'd, Inflame the soul, and captivate the mind. — Phillis Wheatley Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ opposed with earnest eloquence the panic fears and hateful superstitions which have enslaved mankind for ages. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Eloquence; it requires the pleasant and the real; but the pleasant must itself be drawn from the true. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well, though pomposity and banality have not. — Edwin Newman Copy Share Image
They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
