Quotes About Eloquence

He says a million things without saying a word. I have never heard a more eloquent silence.

It was the most eloquent silence I ever heard.

He says a million things without saying a word. I make a note to study David Pertrakis.I have never heard a more eloquent silence.

He says a million things without saying a word. I make a note to study David Petrakis. I have never heard a more eloquent silence.

He says a million things without saying a word I have never head a more eloquent silence -Melinda

David stares at Mr. Neck, looks at the flag for a minute, then picks up his books and walks out of the room. He says a million things without saying a word. I make a note to study David Petrakis. I have never heard a more eloquent silence.

It is a sad thing when men have neither enough intelligence to speak well nor enough sense to hold their tongues; this is the root of all impertinence.

Every blade of grass is a blade of grace, a grace note in God's single Song. Nature is not blind and dumb. Nature is eloquent. Human science is blind and dumb if it does not hear this eloquence.

An accomplished mathematician, i.e. a most wretched orator.

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

Once said that his political adversary "dived down deeper into the sea of knowledge and came up drier than any other man he knew.

In loquaciousness lay insanity.

It is the oldest ironies that are still the most satisfying: man, when preparing for bloody war, will orate loudly and most eloquently in the name of peace.

There is something in death akin to that which exists in love: both spur men to eloquence.

If anyone stops us, as long as we mumble something pretentious about the glory of death, we should be fine.

What do you listen to in the Protestant church? To the words of a man who has been chosen for his eloquence—and not too eloquent either, mark you, or he get's the bum's rush from the pulpit, for fear that in the end he will use his golden tongue for political ends. For a golden tongue is never satisfied until it has wagged itself over the destiny of a nation, and this the church is wise enough to know.

He who speaks least has the most power.

Words have a longer life than deeds.

There is a deep social contract with tolerance and an instinctive distrust of cleverness or eloquence. If the Lord God came to England and started expounding his beliefs, you know what they'd say? They'd say 'Oh, come off it!

For it is eloquence all the same whether few things are said in many words, or many things in few words.

The rude and simple brother must not suppose himself a saint just because he knows nothing; and he who is educated and eloquent must not measure his saintliness merely by his fluency.

After a cup of tea (two spoonsful for each cup, and don't let it stand more than three minutes,) it says to the brain, "Now, rise, and show your strength. Be eloquent, and deep, and tender; see, with a clear eye, into Nature and into life; spread your white wings of quivering thought, and soar, a god-like spirit, over the whirling world beneath you, up through long lanes of flaming stars to the gates of eternity!

Sentences wandered through the report like morning glory through the pickets of a fence.

Deploying flattery leavened with irony, he began: