Top 278 Eloquent Quotes & Sayings

Silence is often the most eloquent answer to our critics.

Every man is eloquent once in his life.

Glamour looks eloquent but seldom talks.

In an easy cause any man may be eloquent.

Only begin, and you will become eloquent of yourself.

When an English man speaks well, for example now, and this is another way of putting us down, they say he's "eloquent" you see. "Oh, eloquent chap they are!" An Irish person speak well, they say, "Ah, you have the gift of the gab." "Ah, you kissed the blarney stone." You see, all of this putting us down.

One of our statesmen said, "The curse of this country is eloquent men."

The simpler you say it, the more eloquent it is.

It was one of God's jokes that such a dumb mind had been put in such an eloquent body.

Good tea is eloquent enough, it turns out, to change a person's mind.

Just to hear President Obama speak - he's eloquent, he's so classy.

The most eloquent seems to stutter.

Ulysses was not comely, but he was eloquent, Yet he fired two goddesses of the sea with love

I've always felt that the placement of a man's testicles is an eloquent argument against intelligent design.

An ill life will effectually drown the voice of the most eloquent ministry.

... silence (can) be the most eloquent form of lying.

My harmony is passable but is usually made more eloquent at the hands of Steve Hamilton.

Meditation is silence, energising and fulfilling. Silent is the eloquent expression of the inexpressible.

The simplest man with passion will be more persuasive than the most eloquent without.

I have never heard a more eloquent silence.

A man will be eloquent if you give him good wine.

Musically Bob [Dylan] is a primitive. He's not a Gershwin, or somebody that uses eloquent music terms.

In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.

Movements are as eloquent as words.

I am not as eloquent as Stephane Dion.

But the hobbledehoy, though he blushes when women address him, and is uneasy even when he is near them, though he is not master ofhis limbs in a ball-room, and is hardly master of his tongue at any time, is the most eloquent of beings, and especially eloquent among beautiful women.

The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent.

The countenance is more eloquent than the tongue.

I am not the most eloquent guy in the world.

Flowers are an easy, eloquent expression of love at a time when words can seem clumsy and inadequate.

Abraham Lincoln was asked by an aide about the church service he had attended. Lincoln responded that the minister was inspired, interesting, well-prepared, eloquent and the topic relevant. The aide said, “Then it was a good service?” Lincoln responded, “No.” The aide protested, “But, Mr. President, you said that the minister was inspired, interesting, well-prepared, eloquent, and that the topic was relevant.” “Yes,” replied Lincoln, “but he didn’t challenge us to do any great thing.

It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.

A generous spirit is as eloquent in acknowledging benefits as it is bounteous in bestowing them.

Their guilt made me eloquent because I was not its victim.

He--the country parson--is not witty or learned or eloquent, but holy.

How frustrating it is to be out-argued by someone you know is dead wrong but is more eloquent.

I am non-corrupt, qualified, eloquent and fully committed to the party.

Tears are at times as eloquent as words. [Weeping hath a voice.]

The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.

It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as a religious.

For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

My feeling is, music is a more eloquent international language than Coca-Cola or McDonalds.

True words aren't eloquent; eloquent words aren't true. Wise men don't need to prove their point; men who need to prove their point aren't wise. The Master has no possessions. The more he does for others, the happier he is. The more he gives to others, the wealthier he is. The Tao nourishes by not forcing. By not dominating, the Master leads.

I am not eloquent.

Sometimes, to be silent is to be most eloquent.

Bill Clinton was relentless, eloquent and truly charming.

Morning Joe was boring. Scarborough is neither eloquent nor funny.

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.

The heavens are nobly eloquent of the Deity, and the most magnificent heralds of their Maker's praise.

Sincerity, even if it speaks with a stutter, will sound eloquent when inspired.

Yet has not Man wept at the sounds? And are not his tears eloquent understanding?

Surely silence can sometimes be the most eloquent reply.

In an easy cause anyone can be eloquent; the slightest strength is enough to break what is already shattered.

No man was ever eloquent by trying to be eloquent, but only by being so.

Silence is more eloquent than words.

Decision has greater virtue and force if taken after there has been eloquent dissent.

Birds are, perhaps, the most eloquent expression of reality.

Praying is simple. Use the words that you know. You don't have to be eloquent, just sincere and reverent.