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Quotes About Eloquence

Et parfois, en se rencontrant, nos regards avaient une éloquence qui palliait la retenue de nos discours.
~ Alexandre Jardin
Mire, mi querido amigo, sólo hay una forma de hablar bien desde la tribuna, y consiste en estar plenamente convencido, al llegar a ella, de que se es el hombre más inteligente del mundo».
~ Alexis Tocqueville
Don't worry. I'm not afraid of words.
~ Alice Hoffman
LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.
~ Ambrose Bierce
severed heads,' Cosca was explaining, 'never go out of fashion. Used sparingly and with artistic, sensibility,They can make a point a great deal more eloquently then those still attached.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Truly clever things are said with short words. Long ones are used to hide stupidity
~ Joe Abercrombie
He fell back, blood pouring from his split mouth. He was trying to say something but all he could say was blood and that was eloquence enough, in its way.
~ Joe Abercrombie
A few words can be more effective than a lot of blades, even in such times as these.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Your voice started to get all low and sexy at the end. You practically purr like a tiger when you're about to get off.
~ Joey W. Hill
It is an unfortunate fact that those people who are most eloquent in their demand for the conservation of animals are often those most eager to violate animal life at the first opportunity.
~ Andrew Linzey
She believed that the way you speak is often more important than anything you have to say.
~ E. Lockhart
the way you speak is often more important than anything you have to say.
~ E. Lockhart
She believed that the way you speak is often more important than what you have to say.
~ E. Lockhart
Women who make men talk better than they are accustomed to are always popular.
~ E. V. Lucas
She wandered as though in a dream, through the wavering sea of barley, touched with crimson stains of poppies. All unobserved, he came to her…There came from his lips no wordy protestations such as formal lovers use. No eloquence was his, nor did he suffer for lack of it. He simply enfolded her in his manly arms…
~ E.M. Forster
Philosophy may be dodged, eloquence cannot.
~ Edgar Quinet
They don't need a lawyer, they need a toastmaster.
~ Edward Bennett Williams
Speech finely framed delighteth the ears.
~ Anonymous
Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt.
~ Anonymous
Though I be rude in speech.
~ Anonymous
Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words.
~ Anonymous
Cicero was nothing if not a genius at character assassination.
~ Anthony Everitt
Do we seek delicate phraseology in politics or other forms of public life? We do not.
~ Lydia Millet
I was a flamboyant girl who participated in debates and all.
~ Himani Shivpuri