A Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Art Eloquence Only

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Marcus Tullius Cicero
Roman - Statesman
106 BC - 43 BC

That silence is one of the great arts of conversation is allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an art, but even an eloquence in it

Hannah More

The Lord is no respector of persons, and will give success to all who work for it. If l can only impress upon the minds of the youth of Zion the eloquence, the inexpressible eloquence of work, I shall feel fully repaid.

Heber J. Grant

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 music can be. But people don't learn to do that anymore, so eloquence is merely a matter of waste. Who needs a good vocabulary and proper English? Eloquence - it's dead and who needs it?

Kurt Vonnegut

There is an art in silence, and there is an eloquence in it too.

Frank Bettger

Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one.

George Santayana

The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society

Nicolas Chamfort

The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.

Nicolas Chamfort

False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.

William R. Alger

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

Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.

Adam Gopnik

Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.

Henri Frederic Amiel

True eloquence scorns eloquence.

Blaise Pascal

True eloquence forgoes eloquence.

Andre Gide

It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; Through Art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.

Oscar Wilde

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.