Eloquent Quotes · Page 4

Perhaps the most eloquent of the hard virtues is courage, the disposition to encounter adversity head-on and strive to overcome it.

— Ted Malloch

A generous spirit is as eloquent in acknowledging benefits as it is bounteous in bestowing them.

— Jane Porter

Senator Barack Obama is a gifted and eloquent young man who I think can do great things for our country.

— Joe Lieberman

It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as a religious.

— Anonymous

The eloquent voice of our century uttered, shortly before leaving the world, a warning cry against the "Anglo- Saxon contagion.

— Matthew Arnold

It is easy to defend the innocent; but who is eloquent enough to defend the guilty?

— Publilius Syrus

The heavens are nobly eloquent of the Deity, and the most magnificent heralds of their Maker's praise.

— James Hervey

Listen, my words have never been described as the most eloquent, but I stick by the passion behind them. I do hate…

— Chrissy Teigen

Here is a book to savor?flavorful and nutritious, it sticks to the mind's ribs. The 'New Agrarianism' is about Americans re-learning how…

— Tony Hiss

The point here is what makes human beings different from other creatures is our ability to use language. We can use words…

— Flemming Rose

I am attracted to ellipsis, to the unsaid, to suggestion, to eloquent, deliberate silence. The unsaid, for me, exerts great power: often…

— Louise Glück

The great reason why we have so little good preaching is that we have so little piety. To be eloquent one must…

— Charles Spurgeon

Tokyo Sonata speaks to us, with feeling and passion, as one of the most eloquent statements on the world today that we…

— Andrew Sarris

No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity…

— Fisher Ames

That it should still be necessary, at this late stage in the senility of the human race to argue that women have…

— H. L. Mencken

Many critics, when trying to praise a short-story collection, will say that it has the heft and scope of a good novel.…

— Gary Krist

Writing style is something is a consequence of who you are. I think that I had a certain propensity for a style…

— Gary Giddins

But I also believe there is enormous value in the piece of writing that goes no further than the one person for…

— Betsy Lerner

As you know, shibumi has to do with great refinement underlying commonplace appearances. It is a statement so correct that it does…

— Trevanian

Language is the crowning achievement of human beings, and that is something Muslims have always known and revered. We are a literate…

— Hamza Yusuf

Nobody needs to go anywhere else. We are all, if we only knew it, already there. If I only knew who in…

— Aldous Huxley

Much of the magical effect that poetry gives of rendering everything it touches pellucid comes from the necessity of compression that it…

— Laura Riding

The First Amendment of the US Constitution ... is an eloquent repudiation of the First Commandment's prohibition of religious freedom. It is…

— Frank Zindler

How then to enforce peace? Not by reason, certainly, nor by education. If a man could not look at the fact of…

— Isaac Asimov

The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.

— Gloria Naylor

When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.

— Martial

I've always felt that the placement of a man's testicles is an eloquent argument against intelligent design.

— Mark Lawrence

You are as eloquent as ever, Mat," Egwene said dryly. "Do you still have your pet fox?" "I do," Mat said. "He's…

— Robert Jordan

They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

To the dear eye and eloquent tongue, to the soul made of fire, and the character that bends but does not break...…

— Charlotte Bronte

O Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow…

— Moses

For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.

— Alfred Nobel

Your example, even more than your words, will be an eloquent lesson to the world.

— Madeleine Sophie Barat

in came ... a baby, eloquent as infancy usually is, and like most youthful orators, more easily heard than understood.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Whom has not the inspiring bowl made eloquent? [Lat., Foecundi calices quem non fecere disertum.]

— Horace

How frustrating it is to be out-argued by someone you know is dead wrong but is more eloquent.

— Lawrence Fagg

My feeling is, music is a more eloquent international language than Coca-Cola or McDonalds.

— Paul Horn

A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his…

— Honore de Balzac

He says a million things without saying a word. I have never heard a more eloquent silence.

— Laurie Halse Anderson