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Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding. -- David Hume
Eloquence is the poetry of prose. -- William C. Bryant
Brevity is a great charm of eloquence. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts. -- Blaise Pascal
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. -- Martin Farquhar Tupper
The finest eloquence is that which gets things done. -- David Lloyd George
Eloquence, when in its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection. -- David Hume
Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies. -- Marshall McLuhan
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of. -- Joseph Addison
Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm. -- Blaise Pascal
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
Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white. -- Ambrose Bierce
Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order. -- Francis Bacon
Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage. -- John W. Gardner
Eloquence is vehement simplicity. -- Richard Cecil
Eloquence is logic on fire. -- Lyman Beecher
Eloquence is the painting of thought ... -- Blaise Pascal
Eloquence is the child of knowledge. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Eloquence may set fire to reason. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Eloquence the soul, song charms the senses. -- John Milton
Eloquence: saying the proper thing and stopping. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information. -- Mark Twain
Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one. -- George Santayana
Eloquence is to the sublime what the whole is to the part. -- Jean de la Bruyere
Eloquence invites us to bring some part of ourselves to the transaction. -- William Zinsser
Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence. -- Thomas Carlyle
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Eloquence is heard; poetry is overheard ... All poetry is of the nature of the soliloquy. -- John Stuart Mill
Eloquence dwells quite as much in the hearts of the hearers as on the lips of the orator. -- Alphonse de Lamartine
Eloquence is the art of saying as little as possible but making it sound as much as possible. -- Evan Esar
Eloquence; it requires the pleasant and the real; but the pleasant must itself be drawn from the true. -- Blaise Pascal
Eloquence is the child of knowledge. When a mind is full, like a wholesome river, it is also clear. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends. -- Tacitus
Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of a portrait. -- Blaise Pascal
Eloquence resides as much in the tone of voice, in the eyes, and in the expression of the face, as in the choice of words. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
E? loquence quipersuade par douceur, non par empire, en tyran, non en roi. Eloquence should persuade gently, not by force or like a tyrant or king. -- Blaise Pascal
Eloquence may be found in conversations and in all kinds of writings; it is rarely found when looked for, and sometimes discovered where it is least expected. -- Jean de la Bruyere
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
Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Eloquence is an engine invented to manage and wield at will the fierce democracy, and, like medicine to the sick, is only employed in the paroxysms of a disordered state. -- Michel de Montaigne
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Thare is no chance of hurrying bussiness here like in the legeslature of a State thare is such a desposition here to Show Eloquence that this will be a long Session and do no good... -- Davy Crockett
Great is the power of Eloquence; but never is it so great as when it pleads along with nature, and the culprit is a child strayed from his duty, and returned to it again with tears. -- Laurence Sterne
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. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eloquence, to produce her full effect, should start from the head of the orator, as Pallas from the brain of Jove, completely armed and equipped. Diffidence, therefore, which is so able a mentor to the writer, would prove a dangerous counsellor for the orator. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Eloquence is a way of saying things in such a way, first, that those to whom we speak may listen to them without pain and with pleasure, and second, that they feel themselves interested, so that self-love leads them more willingly to reflection upon it. -- Blaise Pascal
Courage easily finds its own eloquence. -- Plautus
In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent. -- Ovid
False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis. -- William Rounseville Alger
False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis. -- William Rounseville Alger
Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning. -- Frederick William Faber
Every idea is an incitement... eloquence may set fire to reason. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk. -- Joshua Reynolds
Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted. -- Edgar Allan Poe
Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted. -- Edgar Allan Poe
The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society -- Nicolas Chamfort
True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary. -- Heinrich Heine
Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things. -- Ben Jonson
To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy. -- Bertrand Russell
In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary. -- Robert Fitzgerald
When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime. -- Josh Billings
If you are feeling something, then Shakespeare felt it and wrote about it - and wrote about it so eloquently. -- Richard McCabe
The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room. -- Walter Murch
Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks. -- Heinrich Heine
No living orator would convince a grocer that coffee should be sold without chicory; and no amount of eloquence will make an English lawyer think that loyalty to truth should come before loyalty to his client. -- Anthony Trollope
Of the modern critics, although I disagree with almost everything she says, I admire Mary McCarthy's eloquence and social observation in 'Sights and Spectacles'; she thinks in print, but she doesn't have a real feel for the stage. -- John Lahr
What I am looking for... is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is called the eloquence of silence, or what St. John of the Cross, I think it was, described with the term 'mute music'. -- Joan Miro
I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me. -- Maya Angelou
The 1960s was a period when writers in the West began to be aware of the extraordinary eloquence and popular attraction of the Russian poets such as Yevtushenko and Voznesensky - oppositional figures who could draw crowds. The Russian poets recited from memory as a matter of course. -- James Fenton
I think public intellectuals have a responsibility - to be self-critical on the one hand, to do serious, nuanced work rigorously executed; but to also be able to get off those perches and out of those ivory towers and speak to the real people who make decisions; to speak truth to power and the powerless with lucidity and eloquence. -- Michael Eric Dyson
I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example. -- Mario Cuomo
Continuous eloquence wearies. -- Blaise Pascal
True eloquence scorns eloquence. -- Blaise Pascal
Continuous eloquence is tedious. -- Blaise Pascal
True eloquence forgoes eloquence. -- Andre Gide
Continued eloquence is wearisome. -- Blaise Pascal
Love and businesse teach eloquence. -- George Herbert
Fortify yourself against seductive eloquence. -- Regina Maria Roche
In Silence there is eloquence. -- Rumi
There is eloquence in screaming. -- Patrick Jones
Forensics is eloquence and reduction. -- Gertrude Stein
Prayer is not eloquence but earnestness. -- Hannah More
Philosophy may be dodged, eloquence cannot. -- Edgar Quinet
Earnestness is the salt of eloquence. -- Victor Hugo
COMPULSION, n. The eloquence of power. -- Ambrose Bierce
Take eloquence and wring its neck. -- Paul Verlaine
Poetry is the eloquence of verse. -- William C. Bryant
Brevity is a great charm of eloquence -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
I grew intoxicated with my own eloquence. -- Benjamin Disraeli
It is the heart which inspires eloquence. -- Quintilian
He spoke with more eloquence than wisdom. -- Winston Churchill
Wisdom and eloquence are not always united. -- Victor Hugo
Discretion in speech is more than eloquence. -- Francis Bacon
Manner, as much as matter, constitutes eloquence. -- Francois Delsarte
One man excels in eloquence, another in arms. -- Virgil
Wit is, in fact, the eloquence of indifference. -- William Hazlitt
When Gold argues the cause, eloquence is impotant. -- Publilius Syrus
Great eloquence we cannot get, except from human genius. -- Thomas Starr King
If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Seldom do people discern eloquence under a threadbare cloak -- Juvenal
It was an argument of rare power and eloquence. -- William Henry Moody
A silent address is the genuine eloquence of sincerity. -- Oliver Goldsmith
There is no eloquence without a man behind it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no eloquence which does not agitate the soul. -- Walter Savage Landor
poets. have the toughest jobin the universe-of turning silenceinto eloquence. -- Sanober Khan
Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Genuine laughter is true eloquence and more effective than speech -- Mahatma Gandhi
Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence. -- John Milton
What manly eloquence could produce such an effect as woman's silence? -- Jules Michelet
There is not only an art, but an eloquence in it. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things! -- Michel de Montaigne
The purpose of education is to teach a defense against eloquence. -- Bertrand Russell
Silence, when nothing need be said, is the eloquence of discretion. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation. -- Victor Hugo
They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.] -- Martial

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