Quotes About Eloquence

I wrote it three times - with a Thesaurus.

If you are feeling something, then Shakespeare felt it and wrote about it - and wrote about it so eloquently.

Part of what's mesmerizing about 'The Mechanics of History' is its physical eloquence - how dancerly it is. The men don't fall; they float. And when the trampoline restores them to the staircase, they move at a half speed. Cinema, they say, is 24 frames per second.

This is what is expected of a leader — better perception, clear observation and graceful expression.

He spoke fluently as if he were reading from an invisible page, and yet each individual sentence was so plastically and clearly formed that, had it been taken down in shorthand, his conversation would have been a perfect exposition, ready for the press.

He was always willing to be the text of his own oratory.

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

Courtiers of all ages feel one great need: to speak in such a way that they do not say anything.

Me no read. Look how smart me is.

Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.

To express truth is to write naturally, forcibly, and delicately.

If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary.

Your highness, when I said that you are like a stream of bat's piss, I only mean that you shine out like a shaft of gold when all around it is dark

Soon I'll find the right words, they'll be very simple.

In a courtroom I can sell ice to Eskimos

I'm not very articulate. I don't have that skill.

I understand how to deliver a message, that's my skill.

I don't have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had.

Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.

Love and businesse teach eloquence.

I love profanity, but I think if it's used too much, it just sounds a little trashy. I think it's more effective when it's dropped intelligently. I like intelligent profanity.

Mohamed Ali also had a way with words, but it helped enormously that he could also punch guys in the face.

I'm a man of few words. If you read more, you might have a larger vocabulary.

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.