Eloquence Quote by Michel de Montaigne Download Open image “Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance.” — Michel de Montaigne ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Eloquence Shame Substance Taste
Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things! — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Good taste doesn't exist. It is our taste. We have to be proud of it. — Franco Moschino Copy Share Image
Our purity of taste is best tested by its universality, for if we can only admire this thing or that, we maybe use that… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Tis the taste of effeminacy that disrelishes ordinary and accustomed things. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I’m losing my taste for everything, including even my taste for finding everything tasteless. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
In our heart we know that life loves life. Yet we feast on some of the other life-forms with which we share our planet;… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
We have to get out there and explain that imperfect tastes just as good. — Alex Guarnaschelli Copy Share Image
No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The laws keep up their credit, not by being just, but because they are laws; 'tis the mystic foundation of their authority; they have… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise; so far from difficulty, that boys, as… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things! — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The plainest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness: her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear… — Michel De Montaigne Copy Share Image
The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven. — Michel de Montaigne 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 society. And voluntarily, through the private interaction of individuals and associations - what we can call civil society. ... In a civil society, you make the decision. In a political society, someone else does. ... Civil… — Ed Crane Copy Share
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 gems and jewels do not possess; a word may contain so much life that it can heal the wounds of the heart. Therefore, poetry in which the soul is expressed is as living as a human… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share
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