Elements Quote by Robert Fitzgerald

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

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

Eloquence is relative. One can no more pronounce on the eloquence of any composition than the wholesomeness of a medicine, without knowing for whom…

— Richard Whately

With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin.

— Lytton Strachey

Eloquence is an engine invented to manage and wield at will the fierce democracy, and, like medicine to the sick, is only employed in…

— Michel de Montaigne

Manner, as much as matter, constitutes eloquence.

— Francois Delsarte

[Latin] allows you to adore words, take them apart and find out where they came from.

— Dr. Seuss

True eloquence forgoes eloquence.

— Andre Gide

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

— Mark Twain

I just don't think people get off on language anymore. Language used to be an elevated art. It used to be for people what…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Latin is an international language.

— Krzysztof Penderecki