Quotes About Eloquence

There's something just so kind of smooth about politicians.

Instead he created an enormous body of prose that, at its best, sings.

that it was an advantage to him to be interrupted in speaking, and that his adversaries were afraid to nettle him, lest his anger should redouble his eloquence.

My speeches in no way resemble verbal muck, as you have been pleased to put it in the presence of a lady, but rather a sequence of tightly packed syllogisms, the merit of which would be appreciated by such connoisseurs as Sextus Empiricus, Martianus Capella,4 and, for all I know, Aristotle himself.

Além de eloquentes, esses sonhos eram belos. Esse é um aspecto que escapou a Freud na sua teoria dos sonhos. (...) O sonho é a prova que imaginar, sonhar com aquilo que não acontece, é uma das mais profundas necessidades do homem.

I learned to love the feel of good words.

My dream job would be a lawyer. I can talk my way out of anything, and I love cross-examining people. I think I'd be a really good lawyer.

I love the musicality of words.

The mystery of the God-man was central to Christian worship long before it became central to Christian thinking. "A deep instinct," J. S. Whale once told the undergraduates at Cambridge University, "has always told the Church that our safest eloquence concerning the mystery of Christ is in our praise. A living Church is a worshiping, singing Church; not a school of people holding all the correct doctrines.

The colonel could swear with vehemence and originality when he was angry, spilling his oaths in a pretty pepper and disproving Talleyrand's definition of swearing as the means by which the inarticulate gave themselves the impression of eloquence.

Quamquam scripsit artem rhetorieam Cleanthes, Chrysippus etiam, sed sic, ut si quis obmutescere concupierit, nihil aliud legere debeat.

Keep talking, and you'll eventually sound like a complete idiot instead of just a half-wit.

The woman had a voice that could unwind a good rope.

True eloquence has an edge, sharp and clean.

Someone may be able to speak beautifully about compassion, wisdom, or nonself, but this doesn't necessarily help others. And the speaker may still have a big self or treat others badly. His eloquent speech may be only empty words. We can get tired of all these words, even the word "Buddha.

thundering silence, because it's eloquent and powerful.

When it comes to knowing what to say, to charm, I always had it.

If you are knowledgeable about something and are able to talk about it, you should be able to express yourself.

Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.

Many of the most eloquent people I have ever met work in lab coats every day.

Leaving?" she squeaked, bemused, as Max opened her wardrobe. "You're abducting me?" "Eloping. Eloping involves hurried packing. Abducting involves masked men and a burlap sack.

I was impressed. She had already mastered the art of not saying much of anything at all.

Aplica, pues, un rato los sentidos al bajo son de mi zampoña ruda, indigna de llegar a tus oídos, pues d'ornamento y gracia va desnuda; mas a las veces son mejor oídos el puro ingenio y lengua casi muda, testigos limpios d'ánimo inocente, que la curiosidad del elocuente.

words are merely loose gravel until glued together by the mortar of obscenity.