Quotes About Eloquence

Nothing I say can explain to you Divine Love Yet all of creation cannot seem to stop talking about it.

Thank you for your briefing," said the colonel when I was done. "But I do believe that if you could not say the word 'fuck,' your speeches would be only half as long.

And everything you say sounds better because it's in French. I might just have to speak in a fake French accent for the rest of my life.

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but his mouth was that of the just, which bringeth forth wisdom, and whose lips dispense knowledge.

Proper words in proper places make the true definition of style.

Never tell a lie when you can bullshit your way through it

What made Wilberforce one of the best speakers of his day is complex

Everyone who ever heard him seems to have agreed that the exceeding excellence of Wilberforce's speaking ability was less in what he said than in how he said it.

Wichtigtuer sind zwar zu gut erzogen, um mit vollem Mund zu sprechen. Aber sie haben keine Bedenken, es mit leerem Kopf zu tun.

Talking and eloquence are not the same to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine.

A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.

He was naturally more eloquent, had a ready plenty of words, and sometimes, as I thought, bore me down more by his fluency than by the strength of his reasons. As

Here comes the orator! With his flood of words and his drop of reason.

The learned fool writes his nonsense in better languages than the unlearned; but still it is nonsense.

What shaped my politics regarding war and peace was Martin Luther King Jr., the most extraordinary person that I ever heard. And when he began to talk about the issues of war and peace with such eloquence and such passion, I was drawn to that like a magnet.

Building the church with human wisdom or eloquent speech that circumvents the Cross is building with wood, hay, and stubble.

It was of course Jefferson's gift at one time or another to put with eloquence the "right" answer to every moral question. In practice, however, he seldom deviated from an opportunistic course, calculated to bring him power.

I confess to not having listened to a word of the Declaration of Independence. At the time I barely knew the name of the author of this sublime document. I do remember hearing someone comment that since Mr. Jefferson had seen fit to pledge so eloquently our lives to the cause of independence, he might at least join us in the army. But wise Tom preferred the safety of Virginia and the excitement of local politics to the discomforts and dangers of war.

weaving his verbal wreaths, in prose and verse, of marvellous poison ivy.

A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.

Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.