Quotes About Eloquence

He began talking to an imagined woman, achieving an eloquence that was never his when he was face to face with anyone else.

Say it clearly and you make it beautiful no matter what.

We know our skills are insufficient for an activity with such vast consequences. We recognize that our hearts are too lacking in purity to lead others to holiness. Honest evaluation inevitably causes us to conclude that we do not have sufficient eloquence, wisdom, or character to be capable of turning others from spiritual death to eternal life.

We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.

O insolence of youth! whose tongue affords Such railing eloquence, and war of words. Studious thy country's worthies to defame, Thy erring voice displays thy mother's shame.

The tragedy of his last months was a natural expression of the tragedy of Spain, where culture, eloquence and creativity were giving way to militarism, propaganda, and death. Before long, there was even a concentration camp called 'Unamuno' for republican prisoners.15

Curran grinned and my heart made a little jump. I didn't expect that. "That's it? That's your witty comeback?" "Yep." Eloquence 'R' Us. When in trouble, keep it monosyllabic—safer that way.

Yep." Eloquence 'R' Us. When in trouble, keep it monosyllabic—safer that way.

I did a lot of fast talking as a youth; I was pretty good at it. I was never talked into it - I was always the one doing the talking.

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

Yeats regarded his work as the close of an epoch, and the least of his later lyrics brings the sense of a great occasion. English critics have tried to claim him for their tradition, but, heard closely, his later music has that tremulous lyrical undertone which can be found in the Anglo-Irish eloquence of the eighteenth century.

False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Let eloquence be flung to the dogs rather than souls be lost. What we want is to win souls. They are not won by flowery speeches.

There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it.

Obviously if you're playing some of the smartest men in the world, you want to sound really smart.

Kruppe is wise – wise enough to keep silent when silence is called for, and yet wiser still to speak when wise words are required. Wisdom, after all, is Kruppe's blood brother.

The heart of the wise teaches his mouth and adds persuasiveness to his lips. —Proverbs 16:23

I am not in the least eloquent or fluent with languages. My writing on social media is quite pedestrian. But even if it was near any acceptability, I would not be in a position to pen a script or a book.

Sir Mark Turner, " he said. "I speak with the tongues of a thousand angels. Butterflies follow me wherever I go. Birds sing when I take a breath.

the power of language

terms as a skilled use of words for the sake of communicating knowledge.

There is a time for everything; and all people, but more especially women, should be constantly careful to watch circumstances, and not to air their accomplishments at a time when nobody cares for them. They should practise a sparing economy in displaying their learning and eloquence, and should even, if circumstances require, plead ignorance on subjects with which they are familiar.

Why is it that the less one has to say the more one says it, and in the most pompous and pedantic way possible? Is it to fool the world or just to fool themselves?