Eloquence Quotes

226 Eloquence quotes by 154 unique authors

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
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
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
Eloquence the soul, song charms the senses. — John Milton
There is no eloquence which does not agitate the soul. — Walter Savage Landor
Continued eloquence is wearisome. — Blaise Pascal
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
He has oratory who ravishes his hearers while he forgets himself. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
There is not only an art, but an eloquence in it. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The shadows are as important as the light. — Charlotte Bronte
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
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
Manner, as much as matter, constitutes eloquence. — Francois Delsarte
Eloquence is logic on fire. — Lyman Beecher
Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser. — Adam Gopnik
Great eloquence we cannot get, except from human genius. — Thomas Starr King
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
What I am seeking... is a motionless movement, something equivalent to what is called the eloquence of silence... — Joan Miro
The worshipful father and first founder and embellisher of ornate eloquence in our English, I mean Master Geoffrey Chaucer. — William Caxton
Philosophy may be dodged, eloquence cannot. — Edgar Quinet
The eloquent voice of our century uttered, shortly before leaving the world, a warning cry against the "Anglo- Saxon contagion. — Matthew Arnold
I am not as eloquent as Stephane Dion. — Marc Garneau
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
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
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

Who Wrote These Eloquence Quotes

154 authors contributed a total of 226 Eloquence Quotes, led by these top contributors: