Quotes About Eloquence

People with nothing to say tend to go into public speaking.

When we fail to speak properly, many in our audience will question our education and our knowledgeableness.

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me.

When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.

It's not difficult to appear bright, don't worry. The main thing is never to show obvious ignorance of anything. You prevaricate, avoid the difficulty, steer clear of the problem and then catch other people out by using a dictionary. All men are stupid oafs and ignorant nincompoops.

His strong, gentle, confident voice resonated across the nation with an eloquence that brought comfort and resilience to a nation caught up in a storm and reassured us that we could lick any problem," Reagan recalled. "I will never forget him for that.

Wow." "You've got quite the vocabulary." "Never use a big word when a small one will suffice." "I could make a crack here, but I won't.

I think public intellectuals have a responsibility - to be self-critical on the one hand, to do serious, nuanced work rigorously executed; but to also be able to get off those perches and out of those ivory towers and speak to the real people who make decisions; to speak truth to power and the powerless with lucidity and eloquence.

How can you trust a man who can talk for 5 minutes and you cant understand a sentence of it!

If the truth isn't enough, then you must become stronger at presenting it.

The success of my rule does not rely on my ability to recite obscure Latin verse.

O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised. Thou hast drawn together all the farstretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hic jacet!

He uses language that would make your hair curl.

The less there is of eloquence, the more there is of love.

I love the laconic. Clearly, I am not of their number.

Kindness in thought leads to wisdom. Kindness in speech leads to eloquence. Kindness in action leads to love.

He is fairer than the morning star, and whiter than the moon. For his body I would give my soul, and for his love I would surrender heaven.

Yet often you talk as though you had read rather much. Your way of speech has what is called 'the literary flavour'.

The Judas grace (composed, they say, by Christopher Whitrid himself) is noted for its length and for the excellence of its Latinity.

Don't worry about having the right words; worry more about having the right heart. It's not eloquence he seeks, just honesty.

Preach it, I say preach it.

He's no stranger to pretty words.

Alexander Hamilton, widely reputed to be the most eloquent man in the United States of America, had, for the first time in his life, been rendered speechless.