Quotes About Eloquence

There is such a powerful eloquence in silence. True genius is knowing when to say nothing, to allow the experience, the moment itself, to carry the message, to say what needs to be said. Words are less important, less effective than feeling. When you can sit in perfect silence with someone, you truly know how to communicate.

His eyes, I'd long since discovered, could be as eloquent and expressive as his pen. The messages they sent me now hardly seemed decent for a public setting.

Mister Thorn, something tells me you could sell salvation to a priest.

and when he put his mind to it, he could make his words coil themselves around and around the listener until they held her in some sort of a mild hypnotic spell.

The newspaper columnist James Reston wrote that "President Kennedy's eloquence was designed to make men think; President Johnson's hammer blows are designed to make men act.

The cramped harsh world he portrays is a paradoxically eloquent assertion of the importance of what is so strikingly absent from it: small acts of kindness.

It also demonstrated that far from being an impediment, knowledge is an asset to feminine charm.

All the fun's in how you say a thing.

I do so like all-encompassing words. Verb, adjective, noun. Yes, you are shitted.

He has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts.

When you speak, it should be as if Infinity is speaking.

Sincerity, even if it speaks with a stutter, will sound eloquent when inspired.

Things you say in a matter of seconds are never forgotten in a lifetime."—IKE REIGHARD

We rarely know the full power of words, in print or spoken.

I'm a talker, but that doesn't necessarily make a leader.

Eloquence is the child of knowledge. When a mind is full, like a wholesome river, it is also clear.

Are you one of those people who uses words more for the sound than for the sense of them?

Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.

The art of communication is the language of leadership.

Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, eloquence, or learning; and these three last have never converted any.

There is many a man without learning will get the better of a college-bred man, and will have better words, too.

Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly every day.

Bethyl Ann has vomited words like she ate the dictionary.

Sir, no amount of money, no matter how vast, could induce me to stroll, perambulate, promenade, or engage in any form of locomotion with you whatsoever. Good evening.