Eloquence Quotes
226 Eloquence quotes by 154 unique authors
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The manner of your speaking is full as important as the matter, as more people have ears to be tickled than understandings to judge.
— Lord Chesterfield
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Fine declamation does not consist in flowery periods, delicate allusions of musical cadences, but in a plain, open, loose style, where the periods are long…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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This is that eloquence the ancients represented as lightning, bearing down every opposer; this the power which has turned whole assemblies into astonishment, admiration and…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Eloquence the soul, song charms the senses.
— John Milton
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There is no eloquence which does not agitate the soul.
— Walter Savage Landor
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Continued eloquence is wearisome.
— Blaise Pascal
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That silence is one of the great arts of conversation is allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an art, but even…
— Hannah More
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He has oratory who ravishes his hearers while he forgets himself.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
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There is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The shadows are as important as the light.
— Charlotte Bronte
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The art of saying well what one thinks is different from the faculty of thinking. The latter may be very deep and lofty and far-…
— Joseph Joubert
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It cannot reasonably be doubted, but a little miss, dressed in a new gown for a dancing-school ball, receives as complete enjoyment as the greatest…
— David Hume
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Manner, as much as matter, constitutes eloquence.
— Francois Delsarte
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Eloquence is logic on fire.
— Lyman Beecher
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Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.
— Adam Gopnik
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Great eloquence we cannot get, except from human genius.
— Thomas Starr King
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Secretary of State Colin Powell himself eloquently pointed out the many ways to get at the root of this problem-economic, diplomatic, legal and political, as…
— Barbara Lee
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What I am seeking... is a motionless movement, something equivalent to what is called the eloquence of silence...
— Joan Miro
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The worshipful father and first founder and embellisher of ornate eloquence in our English, I mean Master Geoffrey Chaucer.
— William Caxton
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Philosophy may be dodged, eloquence cannot.
— Edgar Quinet
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The eloquent voice of our century uttered, shortly before leaving the world, a warning cry against the "Anglo- Saxon contagion.
— Matthew Arnold
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I am not as eloquent as Stephane Dion.
— Marc Garneau
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The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our…
— St. Jerome
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None but those who have loved can be supposed to understand the oratory of the eye, the mute eloquence of a look, or the conversational…
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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What the people call eloquence is the facility some persons have of speaking alone and for a long time, aided by extravagant gestures, a loud…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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