Eloquence Quotes
226 quotes by 158 authors
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Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words,…
— Francis Bacon
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A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.
— Joseph Addison
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Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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To lose one's health renders science null, are inglorious, strength unavailing, wealth useless, and eloquence powerless.
— Herophilos
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Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul.
— Hannah More
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No erudition, no purity of diction, no width of mental outlook, no flowers of eloquence, no grace of person can atone for lack of fire.…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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When we rely upon organization, we get what organization can do; when we rely upon education, we get what education can do; when we rely…
— A C Dixon
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What I am looking for... is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is called the eloquence of silence, or what…
— Joan Miro
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True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.
— Heinrich Heine
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Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
— George Washington
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When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty. It may not sound…
— George S. Patton
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Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises, and…
— Samuel Johnson
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Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.
— Frederick William Faber
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Seldom do people discern eloquence under a threadbare cloak
— Juvenal
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The ambition of superior sensibility and superior eloquence disposes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time, and communicate it at another; and…
— Samuel Johnson
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Eloquence: saying the proper thing and stopping.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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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
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Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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