Eloquence Quote by Heinrich Heine

True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

True eloquence forgoes eloquence.

— Andre Gide

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

— Evan Esar

False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.

— Anonymous

Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information.

— Mark Twain

Eloquence; it requires the pleasant and the real; but the pleasant must itself be drawn from the true.

— Blaise Pascal

Manner, as much as matter, constitutes eloquence.

— Francois Delsarte

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

If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation.

— Victor Hugo

In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.

— René Descartes