Eloquence Quotes

226 Eloquence quotes by 154 unique authors

The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read. — Charles Caleb Colton
Gentlemen, do you know what is the finest speech that I ever in my life heard or read? It is the address of Garibaldi to… — Lajos Kossuth
No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts upon him, and… — James A. Garfield
In oratory affectation must be avoided; it being better for a man by a native and clear eloquence to express himself than by those words… — Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury
Eloquence is the child of knowledge. When a mind is full, like a wholesome river, it is also clear. — Benjamin Disraeli
Eloquence is an engine invented to manage and wield at will the fierce democracy, and, like medicine to the sick, is only employed in the… — Michel de Montaigne
When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent. — Martial
It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns. — Tacitus
Eloquence may be found in conversations and in all kinds of writings; it is rarely found when looked for, and sometimes discovered where it is… — Jean de la Bruyere
Eloquence is to the sublime what the whole is to the part. — Jean de la Bruyere
Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself; when consciously he makes himself the mere tongue of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The pleasure of eloquence is in greatest part owing often to the stimulus of the occasion which produces it- - to the magic of sympathy,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is the doctrine of the popular music-masters, that whoever can speak can sing. So, probably, every man is eloquent once in his life. Our… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no eloquence without a man behind it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Profane eloquence is transfered from the bar, where Le Maitre, Pucelle, and Fourcroy formerly practised it, and where it has become obsolete, to the Pulpit,… — Jean de la Bruyere
There is no talent so pernicious as eloquence to those who have it under command. — Joseph Addison
And how moving is the eloquence of the untaught when it is the heart that is speaking! — Mark Twain
Abruptness is an eloquence in parting, when spinning out the time is but the weaving of new sorrow. — John Suckling
He is an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy, lofty things impressively, and moderate things temperately. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
As the grace of man is in the mind, so the beauty of the mind is eloquence. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
God gave you that gifted tongue of yours, and set it between your teeth, to make known your true meaning to us, not to be… — Thomas Carlyle
The hands of those I meet are dumbly eloquent to me. The touch of some hands is an impertinence. I have met people so empty… — Helen Keller

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