#Eloquence Quotes

“Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue.”

“Delivers in such apt and gracious words that aged ears play truant at his tales; And younger hearings are quite ravished; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.”

“The orator is thereby an orator that keeps his feet ever on a fact.”

“Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative. Afterwards, it may warm itself until it exhales symbols of every kind and color, speaks only through the most poetic forms; but first and last, it must still be at bottom a biblical statement of fact.”

“Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man. There is one of whom we took no note, but on a certain occasion it appears that he has a secret virtue never suspected - that he can paint what has occurred and what must occur, with such clearness to a company, as if they saw it done before their eyes. By leading their thought he leads their will, and can make them do gladly what an hour ago they would not believe that they could be led to do at all.”

“You have witchcraft in your lips, there is more eloquence in a sugar touch of them than in the tongues of the French council; and they should sooner persuade Harry of England than a general petition of monarchs.”

“It is the doctrine of the popular music-masters, that whoever can speak can sing. So, probably, every man is eloquent once in his life. Our temperaments differ in capacity of heat, or”

“If you want me to speak for two minutes, it will take me three weeks of preparation. If you want me to speak for thirty minutes, it will take me a week to prepare. If you want me to speak for an hour, I am ready now.”

“In the modesty of fearful duty, I read as much as from the rattling tongue of saucy and audacious eloquence.”

“Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative.”

“It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.”

“He spoke with more eloquence than wisdom.”

“I am sorry to have made such a long speech, but I did not have time to write a shorter one.”

“Of all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory. He who enjoys it wields a power more durable than that of a great king. He is an independent force in the world.”

“Every man is eloquent once in his life.”

“It was my ambition all of my life to be master of the spoken word.”

“In such business Action is eloquence, and the eyes of th’ ignorant More learned than the ears.”

“Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.”

“There is no eloquence without a man behind it.”

“Wisdom and eloquence are not always united.”

“Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy.”

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

“One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say.”

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

“Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.”

“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.”