Eloquence Quote by Johann Kaspar Lavater

When a man forgets himself, he usually does something everybody else remembers.

— James Coco

The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself.

— Andre Gide

“After a lifetime of living by his wits and his considerable memory, he had given himself full time to the profession of forgetting.”

— John le Carré

A man may be so bold of his predestination, that he forget his conversation.

— Thomas Adams

He, who survives his reputation, lives out of despite himself, like a man listening to his own reproach.

— Thomas Paine

However tiresome to others, the most indefatigable orator is never tedious to himself. The sound of his own voice never loses its harmony to…

— John Quincy Adams

At the bottom of the modern man there is always a great thirst for self-forgetfulness, self-distraction . . . and therefore he turns away…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

“He forgets the books he has read, has no memory for dates and misplaces the momentous events in his life. Like a river, all…

— Stefan Zweig

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

— Charles Caleb Colton

“Every public speaker likes his hearer to imagine his oratory as an unpremeditated gift of nature, and not the result of prolonged and patient…

— Mark Logue

He that uses his words loosely and unsteadily will either not be minded or not understood.

— John Locke

His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation…

— Sydney Smith