Quotes About Eloquence

According to my wife, my use of vocabulary is wide and varied.

Grant me some wild expressions, Heavens, or I shall burst.

I'll just let my tennis talk.

What I am looking for... is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is called the eloquence of silence, or what St. John of the Cross, I think it was, described with the term 'mute music'.

One can never produce anything as terrible and impressive as one can awesomely hint about.

It's a terrible thing to speak well and be wrong.

People confuse being full of words with being terribly intelligent and informed.

Every speaker has a mouth An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.

If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

That is all very senseless, but this senselessness has a pretty mouth, and it smiles.

ter uma idéia do mundo, de certa maneira, é coisa fácil, todo o mundo tem, geralmente uma idéia circunscrita à sua aldeia, limitada ao torrão, às coisas tangíveis e medíocres que cada um tem diante dos olhos, e essa idéia do mundo, mesquinha, limitada, cheia de sebo familiar, costuma sobreviver e adquirir, com o passar do tempo, autoridade e eloqüência.

I am too swift of tongue. But I think that is the best way to talk to a dragon.

Um homem armado com a palavra certa pode fazer o que um exército de espadachins não pode.

If I stopped talking after I made my point, I'd never say anything.

If I stopped talking after I made my point, I'd never say anything.

Oswyl just looked exasperated. This benighted case is the strangest I ever worked on. And I'm going to have to report it all when I get home, you realize? Learned Penric's blue eyes crinkled as he grinned. You'd best pray for eloquence, then.

Words are the most powerful drug used by humankind.

Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough.

But listen to me first and swear an oath to use all your eloquence and strength to look after me and protect me.

In painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter your manner.

Silence is not silent. Silence speaks. It speaks most eloquently. Silence is not still. Silence leads. It leads most perfectly.

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Besides, one requires the excitement of being hateful in the eyes of the accused, in order to lash one's self into a state of sufficient vehemence and power. I would not choose to see the man against whom I pleaded smile, as though in mockery of my words. No; my pride is to see the accused pale, agitated, and as though beaten out of all composure by the fire of my eloquence.

He had frequently called for capital punishment on criminals, and owing to his irresistible eloquence they had been condemned, and yet the slightest shadow of remorse had never clouded Villefort's brow, because they were guilty; at least, he believed so; but here was an innocent man whose happiness he had destroyed. In this case he was not the judge, but the executioner.