Eloquent Quotes

Eloquence may set fire to reason.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Nothing is as eloquent as nothing.

— David Mitchell

I am not eloquent.

— Moses

Movements are as eloquent as words.

— Isadora Duncan

The most eloquent seems to stutter.

— Laozi

Birds are, perhaps, the most eloquent expression of reality.

— Roger Tory Peterson

... silence (can) be the most eloquent form of lying.

— Pat Conroy

In an easy cause any man may be eloquent.

— Ovid

In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.

— Ovid

A man will be eloquent if you give him good wine.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tears are at times as eloquent as words. [Weeping hath a voice.]

— Ovid

One of our statesmen said, "The curse of this country is eloquent men."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man is eloquent once in his life.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The simplest man with passion will be more persuasive than the most eloquent without.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his…

— Baruch Spinoza

A despot doesn't fear eloquent writers preaching freedom- he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.

— Anonymous

And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is…

— Matthew Arnold

The most eloquent eulogy of capitalism was made by its greatest enemy. Marx is only anti-capitalist in so far as capitalism is…

— Albert Camus

Ulysses was not comely, but he was eloquent, Yet he fired two goddesses of the sea with love

— Soren Kierkegaard

The sermon of your life in tough times ministers to people more powerfully than the most eloquent speaker.

— Bill Bright

Decision has greater virtue and force if taken after there has been eloquent dissent.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle…

— Oscar Wilde

The hands of those I meet are dumbly eloquent to me. The touch of some hands is an impertinence. I have met…

— Helen Keller

Until you came along, I never knew how much I’d been missing. I never knew that a touch could be so meaningful…

— Nicholas Sparks

Jesmyn Ward returns to the world of her first two books, but here in the mode of non-fiction. A clear-eyed witness to…

— Nicholas Delbanco

It is an unfortunate fact that those people who are most eloquent in their demand for the conservation of animals are often…

— Andrew Linzey

In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When…

— Plato

Speak to me...be eloquent, be brilliant for me. Improvise! Rhapsodize!... I ask for cream and you give me milk and water... Please…

— Edmond Rostand

There’s nothing as significant as a human face. Nor as eloquent. We can never really know another person, except by our first…

— Ayn Rand

O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom…

— Walter Raleigh

Some of the most successful, talented actresses of our generation, be it Julianne Moore, or Charlize Theron, or Charlotte Gainsbourg, or Isabella…

— Natalie Dormer

Senator Obama is a gifted and eloquent young man who can do great things for our country in the years ahead. But…

— Joe Lieberman

All of us--all who knew her--felt so wholesome after we cleaned ourselves on her. We were so beautiful when we stood astride…

— Toni Morrison

To women who please me only by their faces, I am the very devil when I find out they have neither souls…

— Charlotte Bronte

J. Budziszewski is perhaps the clearest and most eloquent natural lawyer writing today. When reading his works I often find myself amazed…

— Francis J. Beckwith

I'm not very eloquent about things like this, but I think that writing and photography go together. I don't mean that they…

— Eudora Welty

Ajamu Baraka is a human rights advocate and an international human rights advocate, who's been defending racial justice, economic justice, worker justice,…

— Jill Stein

Their guilt made me eloquent because I was not its victim.

— Albert Camus

“It was the most eloquent silence I ever heard.”

— Laurie Halse Anderson

Only begin, and you will become eloquent of yourself.

— Ovid