Quotes About Eloquence

I've always had the ability to manipulate words and communicate ideas and thoughts.

I'm always a bit suspicious of writers who have the gift of the gab.

There's always a better word than a swear word.

Appellate advocacy, particularly at the Supreme Court, is really intimate. I mean, you're just a few feet away from the Chief Justice. You know, if you're sweating, they see you.

The pen is mightier than the sword, and is considerably easier to write with.

That the reading of good books, is like the conversation with the honestest persons of the past age, who were the Authors of them, and even a studyed conversation, wherein they discover to us the best only of their thoughts. That eloquence hath forces & beauties which are incomparable.

Those who possess the strongest reasoning and who best order their thoughts in order to make them clear and intelligible can always best persuade others of what they are proposing, even if they were to speak only Low Breton and had never learned rhetoric.

I believe in the magic and in the authority of words

He once said that I ride words bareback.

At the dinner table, and with coffee in the office afterwards, Wolfe resumed on the subject he had started at lunch—Voltaire. The big question was, could a man be called great on account of the way he used words, even though he was a toady, a trimmer, a forger, and an intellectual fop.

The arguments themselves did not appear to me to be any better simply because they were better expressed; eloquence did not make them true." St. Augustine page 85

the sweet juices of your mouth are like castles bathed in honey. i've never had it done so gently before. you have put a circle of castles around my penis and you swirl them like sunlight on the wings of birds.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Lincoln learned to summon the passions, but he never addressed his audience as sweethearts.

Jefferson could strike up the band even when he was being lazy or fearful.

Eloquence is vehement simplicity.

THE PEN IS MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD!!!!

He was also the god of (take a deep breath) commerce, languages, thievery, cheeseburgers, trickery, eloquent speaking, feasts, cheeseburgers, hospitality, guard dogs, birds of omen, gymnastics, athletic competitions, cheeseburgers, cheeseburgers and telling fortunes with dice. Okay, I just tossed in the cheeseburgers to see if you were paying attention. Also, I'm hungry.

You never win a vote by proving the constituent a fool. Be charming, be modest, and don't lose your temper.

You know what Stanley Baldwin said about Churchill?" Baldwin, a Conservative, had been prime minister before Chamberlain. "When Winston was born, lots of fairies swooped down on his cradle with gifts—imagination, eloquence, industry, ability—and then came a fairy who said: 'No person has a right to so many gifts,' picked him up, and gave him such a shake and a twist that he was denied judgment and wisdom.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

Increase your word power. Words are the raw material of our craft.

My power of speech, unimpeachable. Only 19 but my mind is older.

Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us.