Quotes About Eloquence

I'd never been fond of gratuitous cursing. I figured it was lazy, a communication habit of people who couldn't be bothered finding the correct word.

I'm not a guy who curses very much in my personal life. When I curse it sounds like a kid trying to be cool. But I think there are quite a few people, my father being one of them, who use curse words rather eloquently.

A woman is always better in everything with the mouth

Be charming at any age.

I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar.

The art of forceful speech.

Aut tace aut loquere meliora silencio (only when the words outperform silence). These

fluency without content

Aut tace aut loquere meliora silencio: only when the words outperform silence

But this very burden it was, that gave him sympathies so intimate with the sinful brotherhood of mankind; so that his heart vibrated in unison with theirs, and received their pain into itself, and sent its own throb of pain through a thousand other hearts, in gushes of sad, persuasive eloquence. Oftenest persuasive, but sometimes terrible! The people knew not the power that

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

Genius could be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way, or even to say a simple thing in a simpler way.

Style is important. Many people scream the truth but without style it is helpless.

Wise son of a bitch, you're one of those sons of bitches with a vocabulary and you like to lay it around!

Of all I have ever seen or learned, that book seems to me the noblest, the wisest, and the most powerful expression of man's life upon this earth — and also the highest flower of poetry, eloquence, and truth. I am not given to dogmatic judgments in the matter of literary creation, but if I had to make one I could say that Ecclesiastes is the greatest single piece of writing I have ever known, and the wisdom expressed in it the most lasting and profound.

So it was that neither for the first time nor the last my verbal mojo, my knack for the written word, served to save my reckless ass.

It is better to be quotable than to be honest.

We were so beautiful when we stood astride her ugliness. Her simplicity decorated us, her guilt sanctified us, her pain make us glow with health, her awkwardness made us think we had a sense of humour. Her inarticulateness made us believe we were eloquent. Her poverty kept us generous...We honed our egos on her, padded our characters with her frailty...

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in baskets of silver.

It's possible that a not-so-smart person who can communicate well can do much better than a super-smart person who can't communicate well.That is good news because it is much easier to improve your communication skills than your intelligence.

Hell, she knows why you chew your nails, why your eyes are blue one day, black the next. And all you want to do then is curl yourself with her, snug like a worm, lay your pumping head down in her lap. Have her caress you, be kind. No words because both of you are bodies, wrapping and unwrapping, there's eloquence in your embracings. Eyes closed, you realize everything you've ever wanted to say is right there.

Many people believe that if they use big words—capacious, voluminous, consequential language—others will find their use of such words to be a sign of intelligence. The exact opposite is true. If you want to sound smart and confident, replace big words with small ones. Big words don't impress people; big words frustrate people.

I tried to think of something equally kind to say, but he seemed to have used up all the eloquence in the room.

Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it's been shaped into acceptable expository prose.