Quotes About Eloquence

You've learned to express yourselves too well for anything to remain veiled or mysterious.

Commoners always use too many words when they speak.

You have witchcraft in your lips, Kate. There is more eloquence in a sweet touch of them than in the tongues of the whole French council.

Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful

Mrs. Westcliffe, our headmistress, had a ramrod spine and ebony hair and lips that could pinch off her words with such knife-edged clarity you wondered that you didn't bleed to death from a mere, "Good morning.

You can go through life and actually speak your mind and do it in an articulate fashion and with a really intelligent point of view.

When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life.

The perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervor of genius.

Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.

If then a practical end must be assigned to a University course, I say it is that of training good members of society... It is the education which gives a man a clear, conscious view of their own opinions and judgements, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them, and a force in urging them. It teaches him to see things as they are, to go right to the point, to disentangle a skein of thought to detect what is sophistical and to discard what is irrelevant.

la plus belle des savants, la plus savante des belles

I'll let the racket do the talking.

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Cicero's orator is a man built to heroic proportions. He must be a man of eloquentia, with the speaking skills necessary to move great crowds. He must be a patriot whose profound love of country allows him to identify with his audience, to feel what they feel and understand their needs and desires. And he must be a man who understands the true nature of good and evil. As with Aristotle, this last is the most important quality for a great statesman and orator.

Together with Aristotle, he created a civic tradition founded on the heroic image of the orator, who inspires his countrymen by a combination of eloquence, rational argument, and moral vision, and by doing so rallies his nation in a time of crisis. From Washington's farewell speech to Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and Kennedy's inaugural, Cicero and Aristotle would inspire a vital part of American political culture.

One should use common words to say uncommon things

This is the prime way of honoring God. We do not so glorify God by elevated admirations, or eloquent expressions, or pompous services for Him as when we aspire to a conversing with Him with unstained spirits, and live to Him in living like Him (S. Charnock).

Una mujer perspicaz —continúa ella— adivina al pedante en la tercera frase, y es capaz de ver el talento del que guarda silencio.

Great prose isn't always easy but it's always lucid.

Discretion of speech, is more than eloquence.

It was an argument of rare power and eloquence.

President Obama certainly has an impressive gift for eloquence, and he has a global vision, as did my father. He doesn't rattle easy, and he doesn't harbor animosity, which were also characteristics my father had. But my father's arena was far broader than politics.

I can't rave enough about Eloisa James. I'm simply in awe of her talent.

The kids who speak well, are articulate and intelligent, are all readers.