Quotes About Eloquence

One doesn't gossip with a genius.

Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

I guess my diction just isn't very good.

He was admired for never being at a loss for words and never wasting any either.

Shakespeare knew too much.

To speak well is part of living well.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

She had lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

Style is a sort of melody that comes into my sentences by itself. If a writer says what he has to say as accurately and effectively as he can, his style will take care of itself.

It is positively because he is quick-witted that he is long-winded.

I want that sort of thing — not ideas, you know, but a way of putting them.

I have a hyperbolical tongue: it catches fire as it goes. I dare say I shall have to retract.

And a man who speaks effectively through music is compelled to something more difficult than parliamentary eloquence.

If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud!

The right word fitly spoken is a precious rarity.

Sometimes I know the meaning of a word but am tired of it and feel the need for an unfamiliar, especially precise or poetic term, perhaps one with a nuance that flatters my readership's exquisite sensitivity.

In Congress, there are some who are unashamed to aspire to eloquence, even to scholarship, but the only state legislator I ever knew who would not join in the mispronounceciation of a word for the sake of camaraderie with her fellows was former State Senator and Congresswoman Barbara Jordan.

If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times.

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.

Who has words at the right moment?

I love the English language. Words have power.

I really enjoy finding the right word, creating a good, flowing sentence. I enjoy the rhythm of the words.