Quotes About Eloquence

Abruptness is an eloquence in parting, when spinning out the time is but the weaving of new sorrow.

Yeats was the greatest poet of our times . . . certainly the greatest in this language, and so far as I am able to judge, in any language.

Whatever has "wit enough to keep it sweet" defies corruption and outlasts all time; but the wit must be of that outward and visible order which needs no introduction or demonstration at our hands.

We looked at each other for the last time; nothing is as eloquent as nothing.

The vice-president's tongue is several time zones ahead of his brain.

Whoever has received knowledge and eloquence in speech from God should not be silent or secretive but demonstrate it willingly. When a great good is widely heard of, then, and only then, does it bloom, and when that good is praised by man, it has spread its blossoms.

Anyone who has received from God the gift of knowledge and true eloquence has a duty not to remain silent

Qui Deus a duné esciënce e de parler bone eloquence, ne s'en deit taisir ne celer, ainz se deit voluntiers mustrer. Prologue des Lais.

El estilo borgiano es uno de los milagros estéticos del siglo que termina, un estilo que desinfló la lengua española de la elefantiasis retórica, del énfasis y la reiteración que la asfixiaban, que la depuró hasta casi la anorexia y obligó a ser luminosamente inteligente

H]e quoted eloquently from the Bill of Rights, the Constitution, the Gettysburg Address, and a section which had been stricken from his party's platform seventy-five years ago. He was not quite clear on what all this had to do with [the present situation], but it was noble and stirring and would bring in a lot of votes.

A woman's weapon is her tongue.

And I think that when once he had learned the art of arranging his words as he stood upon his legs, and had so mastered his voice as to have obtained the ear of the House, the work of his life was not difficult.

True love, true friendship, true benevolence, true tenderness, were beautiful to her,—qualities on which she could descant almost with eloquence; and therefore she was always shamming love and friendship and benevolence and tenderness.

Radicalism and old-fogyism, of which we have lately heard from a political master, whose eloquence has been employed in teaching us that progress can only be expected from those whose declared purpose is to stand still.

He did not tell Phineas, in so many words, that he was proposing to make an ass of himself.

the fact that it took the rise of democracies and otherwise open societies at Athens and elsewhere to create the climate in which public eloquence became a political indispensability.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: La habilidad de exponer una idea es tan importante como la idea en sí misma (Aristóteles)

He said brokenly many things beautiful in their common-ness.

I must say I'm not very fond of oratory that's so full of energy it hasn't any room for facts.

Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge

To speak much is one thing; to speak to the point another!

Whoever thinks that he alone possesses intelligence, the gift of eloquence, he and no one else, and character too ... such men, I tell you, spread them open - you will find them empty

Sei abile con la lingua. Ma non conosco nessun uomo onesto che trovi parole belle per ogni circostanza

Now don't, please, be quite so single-minded, self-involved, or assume the world is wrong and you are right. Whoever thinks that he alone possesses intelligence, the gift of eloquence, he and no one else, and character too... such men, I tell you, spread them open-you will find them empty.