Quotes About Eloquence

Even so, sometimes I wish I did have a little bit more flair in my language.

It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.

The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.

Your wit makes others witty.

Wilde is an invaluable acquaintance. Often, in situations where I am required to appear witty, I simply steal large chunks from his works and attempt to pass them off as my own with minor modifications.

The problem with people who live in a world of speeches and books and theories is they don't know how to fix things in the real world when they go wrong. They feign ignorance, blame others, and make another eloquent speech.

I like people who are minimalist with their words. Jack Nicholson thinks a lot then says something, and it's always spot on. Nelson Mandela is the same.

Of the modern critics, although I disagree with almost everything she says, I admire Mary McCarthy's eloquence and social observation in 'Sights and Spectacles'; she thinks in print, but she doesn't have a real feel for the stage.

Even though I am fantastic looking, I am still quite intelligent.

In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.

We said nothing for some time but we couldn't have been more eloquent.

We said nothing for some time but we couldn't have been more eloquent.

The sage who engages in controversy with ignorant people must not expect to be treated with honour; and if a fool should overpower a philosopher by his loquacity it is not to be wondered at, for a common stone will break a jewel.

If your speaking skills need work, by all means work on them. But it's better to be honest and straightforward than mere witty and clever.

To praise without bombast; to display expertise without pretension.

Nam eloquentiam quae admirationem non habet nullam iudico

Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Fieri autem potest ut recte quis sentiat et id, quod sentit, polite eloqui non possit; sed mandare quemquam litteris cogitationes suas, qui eas nec disponere nec illustrare possit nec delectatione aliqua adlicere lectorem, hominis est intemperanter abutentis et otio et litteris.

On his daughter Malala Yousafzai: She was very articulate, more than me. She could say things in a very few words that I take a long time to communicate.

You could tell by the way he talked, though, that he had gone to school a long time. That was probably what was wrong with him.

Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don't know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.

People have writer's block not because they can't write, but because they despair of writing eloquently.

Poetry is truth... It is the highest truth, and eloquence is its attribute.