A Quote by Francis Bacon

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

Francis Bacon

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Francis Bacon
English - Philosopher
January 22, 1561 - April 9, 1626

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

Francis Bacon

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Genuine laughter is true eloquence and more effective than speech

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Richard Whately

Silence, when nothing need be said, is the eloquence of discretion.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.

Homer

Discretion is the most powerful tool a police officer carries on the beat, because an appropriate level of discretion can short-circuit the use of lethal force. Discretion and de-escalation measures are pro-community, pro-police, and create more trust while making everyone safer.

John Fetterman

It's always easy to get people to condemn threats to free speech when the speech being threatened is speech that they like. It's much more difficult to induce support for free speech rights when the speech being punished is speech they find repellent.

Glenn Greenwald

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

Mark Twain

My speech is really important to me, but the thing is at the moment it can't be more important than my singing. Until I'm an established name all over the world, my speech won't be more important than my music.

Gareth Gates

The truth is mightier than eloquence, the Spirit greater than genius, faith more than education.

Martin Luther

It's not 'natural' to speak well, eloquently, in an interesting, articulate way. People living in groups, families, communes say little - have few verbal means. Eloquence - thinking in words - is a byproduct of solitude, deracination, a heightened painful individuality. In groups, it's more natural to sing, to dance, to pray: given, rather than invented (individual) speech.

Susan Sontag

Beautiful eyes in the face of a handsome woman are like eloquence to speech.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Discretion, like the hole in a doughnut, does not exist except as an area left open by a surrounding belt of restriction. It is therefore a relative concept. It always makes sense to ask, "Discretion under which standards?" or "Discretion as to which authority?

Ronald Dworkin

The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.

Voltaire

O, let my books be then the eloquence And dumb presagers of my speaking breast, Who plead for love, and look for recompense, More than that tongue that more hath more expressed.

William Shakespeare

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