Quotes About Eloquence

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every talent which a man can be possessed of. It heightens all the virtues which it accompanies; like the shades of paintings, it raises and rounds every figure, and makes the colours more beautiful, though not so glowing as they would be without it.

A good pastor knows when they can't put two sentences together.

Pat Summerall personified less is more. His play-by-play was so bare bones but so great because he had a great, deep-toned voice.

I'm not much at saying patriotic things.

I think the lawyers are such incredible actors. Can you imagine the performance they have to do every day?

If one but tell a thing well, it moves on with undying voice, and over the fruitful earth and across the sea goes the bright gleam of noble deeds ever unquenchable.

Courage easily finds its own eloquence.

It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.

It's a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome.

Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.

Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!

For it is feeling and force of imagination that makes us eloquent.

In writing are the roots, in writing are the foundations of eloquence; by writing resources are stored up, as it were, in a sacred repository, when they may be drawn forth for sudden emergencies, or as circumstances require.

There are melodies that speak as eloquently as words, that flow logically and inevitably from a single, pure emotion.

Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.

Even when low-brow comedy ruled, I ensured my lines were not vulgar.

I have a good mind but I don't like to bore anyone with it.

I can speak at length and use my brain. It's nice to be able to show that side of me.

I'm not a pitiable creature. It's just that I suffer very eloquently.

My strong suits, coming from poetry, will naturally be description, which I love doing. It comes very easily, and possibly structure, up to a point.

A man is reputed to have thought and eloquence; he cannot, for all that, say a word to his cousin or his uncle. They accuse his silence with as much reason as they would blame the insignificance of a dial in the shade. In the sun it will mark the hour. Among those who enjoy his thought, he will regain his tongue.

A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches.

In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself; when consciously he makes himself the mere tongue of the occasion and the hour, and says what cannot but be said. Hence the term abandonment, to describe the self-surrender of the orator. Not his will, but the principle on which he is horsed, the great connection and crisis of events, thunder in the ear of the crowd.