Quotes About Eloquence

Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.

Jasnah didn't want to merely prove her points. She wanted to drive them right into your skull, with a flourish and a pithy epigram.

He speaks with the clear enunciation and ready eloquence of his race, and uses his clear, pleasant-toned voice with practised effect.

Seward would inspire a cow with statesmanship if she understood our language.

If any think that their influence would be lost there, and their voices no longer afflict the ear of the State, that they would not be as an enemy within its walls, they do not know how much truth is stronger than errors, nor how much more eloquently and effectively he can combat injustice who has experienced a little in his own person. Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence.

What is called eloquence in the forum is commonly found to be rhetoric in the study.

Nous aimons l'éloquence pour l'éloquence et non pour la vérité qu'elle peut énoncer ou l'héroïsme qu'elle peut inspirer.

A written word is the choicest of relics.

No man with a genius for legislation has appeared in America. They are rare in the history of the world. There are orators, politicians, and eloquent men, by the thousand; but the speaker has not yet opened his mouth to speak, who is capable of settling the much-vexed questions of the day. We love eloquence for its own sake, and not for any truth which it may utter, or any heroism it may inspire.

We love eloquence for its own sake, and not for any truth which it may utter, or any heroism it may inspire.

You cannot give anything more important than the Love reflected in your own life. That is the one true universal language, which allows us to speak Chinese or the dialects of India. For if, one day, you go to those places, the silent eloquence of Love will mean that you will be understood by everyone.

A president who aspires to be recognized as a global leader should not personally stake out a foreign-policy goal, commit himself eloquently to its attainment, and then yield the ground when confronted by firm opposition.

Thomas Paine, so celebrated and so despised as he traveled through the critical events of his time, has long appealed to biographers. Paine was present at the creation both of the United States and of the French Republic. His eloquence, in the pamphlet 'Common Sense,' propelled the American colonists toward independence.

A good speech is like a miniskirt--long enough to over all the vital parts, short enough to entice and captivate listeners.

She speaks in heartbeats and the rises of her chest, words forever seared in thoughts that will never rest.

If you say it very softly, with a smile, you can get away with saying almost anything, even the truth.

Her words dance on the page.

I'm very anxious not to fall into archaism or 'literary' diction. I want my vocabulary to have a very large range, but the words must be alive.

Give them nothing, but give it politely.

Perhaps 'tis not strictly in accordance with the evidence ... but even the damned may salute the eloquence of Mr. Webster.

Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way.

I'm smart and I can be really funny and interesting and I can go toe-to-toe with anybody in a conversation.

Barack Obama is way smarter than Bush - so way, way smarter than me. Obama is way more charismatic than me.

The more comprehensive your language is, the more likely people are to believe everything you're saying. It really just comes from the power of knowing you're the smartest person in the room, and if you aren't, you're definitely going to sound like it.