Eloquence Quotes

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

“In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.”

“In Silence there is eloquence.”

“Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man.”

“The right eloquence needs no bell to call the people together, and no constable to keep them.”

“No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.”

“The orator puts off his individuality, and is then most eloquent when most silent. He listens while he speaks, and is a hearer along with his audience.”

“However much we admire the orator's occasional bursts of eloquence, the noblest written words are commonly as far behind or abovethe fleeting spoken language as the firmament with its stars is behind the clouds.”

“He is an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy, lofty things impressively, and moderate things temperately.”

“Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.”

“Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.”

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

“Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.”

“As the grace of man is in the mind, so the beauty of the mind is eloquence.”

“Nothing is so difficult to believe that oratory cannot make it acceptable, nothing so rough and uncultured as not to gain brilliance and refinement from eloquence.”

“Kindness in thought leads to wisdom. Kindness in speech leads to eloquence. Kindness in action leads to love.”

“No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.”

“They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.”

“It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.”

“And how moving is the eloquence of the untaught when it is the heart that is speaking!”

“For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in artificial graces, delights us.”

“The most eloquent seems to stutter.”

“Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.”

“A good orator is pointed and impassioned.”

“Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.”