Quotes About Eloquence

Amaro likes words. . . . I think he enjoys their taste.

His sentences are in homely English, and yet there is something Roman in the easy handling of clauses, and something Greek in their ascent from analogy to idea.

My words are my wings. They send me soaring. My words are my wings, and, I hope, never boring

I'm very political without being political. I don't know how to speak proper political language.

People appreciate and follow the person who can persuade them properly. Make that person you.

Take some elocution lessons; you can joke with Ebonics, but the truth is, nothing beats the King's English. Learning how to speak properly, and the art of delivery can take you very far in life!

Sheer brilliance needs to be expressed properly.

Lincoln, steeped in the Bible and Shakespeare, set an impossibly high bar for presidential prose.

I believe so deeply in the primacy of language, in lifting your prose to the highest level you're capable of and making your words symphonic.

I'm obsessed with proverbs because, to me, flexing is being able to say the most with the least amount of words.

I'd like to provide an SAT word in everything I do.

This is what destroys the fine cities and homes of mortals: words spoken too well.

To me, a wicked man who is also eloquent seems the most guilty of them all. He´ll cut your throat as bold as brass, because he knows he can dress up murder in handsome words.

Of course those that have charm don't really need brains.

I hate dainty minds,' answered Marjorie. 'But a girl has to be dainty in person. If she looks like a million dollars she can talk about Russia, ping-pong, or the League of Nations and get away with it.

I want you to lie to me just as sweetly as you know how for the rest of my life.

Her eyes appeared to regard him out of many thousand years: all emotion she might have felt, all words she might have uttered, would have seemed inadequate beside the adequacy of her silence, ineloquent against the eloquence of her beauty

She could make fascinating and almost brilliant conversation out of the thinnest air that ever floated through a drawing-room.

Verbally, I'm quite fast on my feet. I could embarrass or anger most people if I wanted to.

Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.

Manute Bol was one of the guys who taught me to be bold. To be fierce. To speak intelligently, and speak like you belong.

The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.

Nevertheless there are certain peaks, canons, and clear meadow spaces which are above all compassing of words, and have a certain fame as of the nobly great to whom we give no familiar names.

If you are the greatest, why would you go around talking about it?