Quotes About Eloquence

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

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

I think the firmness in one's stance can be conveyed in a different manner without being indecent or using harsh words.

He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.

The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.

I'm a charming coward; I fight with words.

You gotta use cuss words when you don't have no intellect.

I'm not Cormac McCarthy, but I can get my point across in a thousand words.

He can thread a needle with a well-turned phrase.

I am not one who - who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

For they wished to fill the winepress of eloquence not with the tendrils of mere words but with the rich grape juice of good sense.

You need to teach your lips how to be persuasive," I would say, "You have a profound way of thinking, but you will lose your audience if you attack them. How could you have said that with more appeal?

I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.

For all a rhetorician's rulesTeach nothing but to name his tools.

Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetic.

Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.

Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetick.

You claimed that... I would embroil those same carefully and colorfully constructed barrow-pushers and counts and wagoners and cutpurses in perfectly preposterous actions, during the course of which each would declare with great eloquence things that no count or cutpurse would ever possibly say. And if any ever even thought that he or she felt such things, you maintained, it was only from having been taken in by our skits in the first place.

No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.

All would say that my tongue tells tales and for a greater man

Spencer, you do not need to know any more big words. You're already scary enough to anyone under 50.

La vraie e loquence se moque de l'e loquence, la vraie morale se moque de la morale. True eloquence has notime foreloquence, true morality has no time for morality.

A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.