Quotes About Eloquence

In the future, I'll be braver, she told herself. In the future, I will always speak my mind, eloquently, passionately.

Faint-hearted as usual, she had left it too late. In the future, I'll be braver, she told herself. In the future, I will always speak my mind, eloquently, passionately.

She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or potion that could be combined with other words to create powerful spells.

True power does not need arrogance, a long beard and a barking voice. True power strangles you with silk ribbons, charm and intelligence.

The thing is - I'm not an idiot. I'm rather intelligent, as proven by the fact that I just used the word 'rather' in a sentence.

Zingers should glow with intelligence as well as drip with contempt.

I think we now know the limits also of intelligence and rhetoric.

A smart woman would have shut up. Did I? Hell no. Intelligence is overrated anyway.

Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.

La retórica es el arte de la influencia, la amistad y la elocuencia, del ingenio y la lógica irrefutable. Y emplea la más poderosa de las fuerzas sociales: la argumentación.

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It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.

trincasse, a tagarela Foi valer-se

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.

Her Lips Are Copper Wire" whisper of yellow globes gleaming on lamp posts that sway like bootleg licker drinkers in the fog and let your breath be moist against me like bright beads on yellow globes telephone the power-house that the main wires are insulate (her words play up and down dewy corridors of billboards) then with your tongue remove the tape and press your lips to mine till they are incandescent

La clarté est la souveraine politesse de qui manie une plume . (Clarity is the sovereign politeness of the one who wields a pen.)

You have a rare and marvelous gift with words.

Un seul beau son est plus beau qu'un long parler.

You walk out in the evening with a woman, you tell her that she is beautiful and you love her, and twenty centuries hear what you are saying.

Beauty should be the goal of your communication. Learn to speak with godly wisdom.

Meaningful prayer is a matter of the heart, not the eloquence of the words.

He had learned in the past four years to speak only when he knew that which he was speaking about. Moreover, he had learned that silence can sometimes relax a listener into thinking that one might be intelligent.