Art Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

“What is called eloquence in the forum is commonly found to be rhetoric in the study.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Eloquence is the poetry of prose.

— William C. Bryant

What is called eloquence in the forum is commonly found to be rhetoric in the study. The orator yields to the inspiration of a…

— Henry David Thoreau

Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one.

— George Santayana

Eloquence is the art of saying as little as possible but making it sound as much as possible.

— Evan Esar

Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“True eloquence is irresistible. It charms by its images of beauty, it enforces an argument by its vehement simplicity. Orators whose speeches are "full…

— Albert Ellery Bergh

Eloquence may be found in conversations and in all kinds of writings; it is rarely found when looked for, and sometimes discovered where it…

— Jean de la Bruyere

Manner, as much as matter, constitutes eloquence.

— Francois Delsarte

Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative. Afterwards, it may warm itself until it exhales symbols of every kind and color, speaks only…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of…

— Aristotle

Eloquence is heard; poetry is overheard ... All poetry is of the nature of the soliloquy.

— John Stuart Mill