Top 333 Eloquence Quotes & Sayings

Wit is, in fact, the eloquence of indifference.

Eloquence is the poetry of prose.

In Silence there is eloquence.

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

Eloquence is vehement simplicity.

True eloquence forgoes eloquence.

Eloquence is to the sublime what the whole is to the part.

True eloquence makes light of eloquence, true morality makes light of morality; that is to say, the morality of the judgment, which has no rules, makes light of the morality of the intellect.... To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

Manner, as much as matter, constitutes eloquence.

True eloquence makes light of eloquence. True morality makes light of morality.

It was an argument of rare power and eloquence.

There is something in the eloquence of the pulpit, when it is really eloquence, which is entitled to the highest praise and honour. The preacher who can touch and affect such an heterogeneous mass of hearers, on subjects limited, and long worn thread-bare in all common hands; who can say any thing new or striking, any thing that rouses the attention, without offending the taste, or wearing out the feelings of his hearers, is a man whom one could not (in his public capacity) honour enough.

I grew intoxicated with my own eloquence.

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

Eloquence: saying the proper thing and stopping.

Comedy has lost its eloquence.

The less there is of eloquence, the more there is of love.

When Gold argues the cause, eloquence is impotant.

One man excels in eloquence, another in arms.

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

It is the heart which inspires eloquence.

There is no eloquence which does not agitate the soul.

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?

Borrowed eloquence, if it contains as good stuff, is as good as own eloquence

If our eloquence be directed above the heads of our hearers, we shall do no execution. By pointing our arguments low, we stand a chance of hitting their hearts as well as their heads. In addressing angels, we could hardly raise our eloquence too high; but we must remember that men are not angels.

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.

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

Eloquence is the painting of thought.

Continued eloquence is wearisome.

Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.

COMPULSION, n. The eloquence of power.

Continuous eloquence wearies.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

Forensics is eloquence and reduction.

Eloquence is logic on fire.

Fortify yourself against seductive eloquence.

Love and businesse teach eloquence.

Take eloquence and wring its neck.

Eloquence the soul, song charms the senses.

There is no eloquence without a man behind it.

He spoke with more eloquence than wisdom.

Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man.

Courage easily finds its own eloquence.

True eloquence scorns eloquence.

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.

One who has accumulated virtue will certainly also possess eloquence; but he who has eloquence doe not necessarily possess virtue.

Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.

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

There is no talent so pernicious as eloquence to those who have it under command.

Eloquence is the child of knowledge.

Eloquence may set fire to reason.

Wisdom and eloquence are not always united.

Poetry is the eloquence of verse.

Prayer is not eloquence but earnestness.

A silent address is the genuine eloquence of sincerity.

False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.

There is eloquence in screaming.

Philosophy may be dodged, eloquence cannot.

Continuous eloquence is tedious.

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.