Eloquence Quote by Alphonse de Lamartine Download Open image “Eloquence dwells quite as much in the hearts of the hearers as on the lips of the orator.” — Alphonse de Lamartine ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Eloquence Heart Inspirational Lips Orators
Eloquence resides as much in the tone of voice, in the eyes, and in the expression of the face, as in the choice of… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Eloquence, when at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection; but addressing itself entirely to the fancy or the affections, captivates the willing hearers, and subdues their understanding. Happily, this pitch it seldom attains. But what a Tully or a Demosthenes could scarcely effect over a Roman or Athenian audience, every Capuchin, every itinerant or stationary teacher… — Anonymous Copy Share
Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Eloquence, to produce her full effect, should start from the head of the orator, as Pallas from the brain of Jove, completely armed and… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk. — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
The orator puts off his individuality, and is then most eloquent when most silent. He listens while he speaks, and is a hearer along… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The right eloquence needs no bell to call the people together, and no constable to keep them. It draws the children from their play,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
What the people call eloquence is the facility some persons have of speaking alone and for a long time, aided by extravagant gestures, a… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of tenderness, truth,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Grief and sadness knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger than common joys — Alphonse De Lamartine Copy Share Image
Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day. — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale. — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
Let us enjoy the fugitive hour. Man has no harbor, time has no shore; it rushes on, and carries us with it. — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
I am persuaded that if the brutes even--if the dog, the horse, the ox, the elephant, the bird, could speak, they would confess, that,… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm springs from the imagination, and self-sacrifice from the heart. Women are, therefore, more naturally heroic than men. All nations have in their annals… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
There should be in eloquence that which is pleasing and that which is real; but that which is pleasing should itself be real. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things! — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
[T]here are, at bottom, basically two ways to order social affairs, Coercively, through the mechanisms of the state - what we can call political… — Ed Crane Copy Share Image
Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Among all the valuable things of this world, the word is the most precious. For in the word one can find a light which… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of a portrait. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Your eloquence should be the servant of the ideas in your head. Your rule might be this: If a sentence, no matter how excellent,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image