Quotes About Eloquence

Take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then say it with the utmost levity.

There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues.

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

Grant me some wild expressions, Heavens, or I shall burst.

yep Eloquence 'R' Us. When in trouble, keep it monosyllabic-safer that way.

Oh wow, now that was a clever comeback. He'd surely drop to his knees and bow before my intellectual brilliance.

Angel, while diplomatic, suffered from an eloquent man's malady—faced with silence, he felt compelled to fill it, even when it was in his best interests to keep his mouth shut.

Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which the language is capable of is terribly important to the human beings because this is connected to thought.

He is endowed with an Irish flow of words, and when thoroughly drunk is difficult to interrupt.

Lord Dorwin, gentlemen, in five days of discussion didn't say one damned thing, and said it so you never noticed.

Caminaba erguido y con el pecho adelante, dispuesto al combate, hablaba con voz de actor y elocuencia de iluminado, era controlado en los gestos, rápido de pensamiento e irreductible en sus convicciones fundamentales

Every man in it is a great man, an orator, a critic, a statesman; and therefore every man upon every question must show his oratory, his criticism, and his political abilities.

She had lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

The manner of your speaking is full as important as the matter, as more people have ears to be tickled than understandings to judge.

True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.

As perfume to the flower, so is kindness to speech.

I've always appreciated a turn of phrase.

I'm personally attracted to great writing - that's what turns me on the most.

I only met Margaret Thatcher twice. The thing that I thought about meeting her was how extraordinarily intelligent she was. You really had to be on your game; otherwise, she'd make mincemeat of you.

Predictions can sound really good if you're good with words and can express them eloquently and give people ideas and inspiration in their head. But I'm not really good at that, so I don't want to.

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

Let arms yield to the toga, let the [victor's] laurel yield to the [orator's] tongue.

He talked with more claret than clarity.