Quotes About Eloquence

President Kennedy's eloquence was designed to make men think; President Johnson's hammer blows are designed to make men act.

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. —

And when a politician abuses his office and uses his power for his own aggrandizement, Biblical people should rise up and protest with all of the insistence, courage, and eloquence of Nathan in the court of David.

All my life I've wanted, just once, to say something clever without losing my train of thought.

The point is that the powers on which he chiefly relied in exercising this forceful individual leadership were his powers of persuasion.

When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike. Powerful people impress and intimidate by saying less. The more you say, the more likely you are to say something foolish.

human tongue is a beast that few can master.

Plus vous vous laissez aller à parler, plus vous avez l'air banal et peu maître de vous-même. Même anodines, vos paroles sembleront originales si elles restent vagues et énigmatiques. Les personnages puissants impressionnent et intimident parce qu'ils sont peu loquaces. Plus vous en dites et plus vous risquez de dire des bêtises.

Tienen un don —facilidad de palabra, a menudo— que los distingue de la muchedumbre. Expresan una visión.

Cicero's first law of rhetoric, that a speech must always contain at least one surprise.

Her silence was more eloquent than any words.

Let the word stand on its own. If it is the right word, it will work without help. If it's the wrong word, adding other words to it will just make it seem desperate.

language is sacred. It has glory, even in ordinary speech. The way most people use it, it's like a winged horse pulling a junk wagon.

They spoke in fragments and ellipses, in paraphrastics and aposiopesis, in a style abundant in chiasmus, metonymy, meiosis, oxymoron, and zeugma; their dazzling rhetorical techniques left him baffled and uncomfortable, which beyond much doubt was their intention.

If you want to be a leader of people, then you need to be a master of words.

But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?

But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them

But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?

Pero si una tiene ideas grandes, necesita palabras largas para expresarlas, ¿no cree?

It was nearly as long as a minister's and so poetical.

Ama eÄŸer büyük fikirleriniz varsa onlar? ifade edebilmek için büyük kelimeler kullanman?z gerekir, öyle deÄŸil mi?

have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?

But when you have huge thoughts you need to use large words to specific them, haven't you?

Pero si uno tiene grandes ideas debe usar grandes palabras para expresarlas, ¿no es verdad?