Quotes About Eloquence

You like words and I know words

What's the riddle? Me talking so much And saying so little

Don't underestimate her ability to talk, it's her superpower.

Diplomat: A person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.

A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you will look forward to the trip.

A diplomat... is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.

Hail, Muse! et cetera.

Language was a kind of passport. You could go where you like if you had a clean record. You could say what you like if you know how to say it. It didn't matter whether you felt everything you said. You had language, good, big words to make up for what you didn't feel. And if you were really educated, and you could command the language like a captain on a ship,

The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.

A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence. It is force, and like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

Josip had only an instant to exchange a glance with Serif. He made it the most eloquent glance of his life.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.

A good speech, like a woman's skirt, should be long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest. I have been asked to give my address in the remaining five minutes. That I can do! Here it is: 10 Carlton Gardens, London, England.

Oratory is the power to talk people out of their sober and natural opinions.

The object of oratory is not truth, but persuasion.

What the orators want in depth, they give you in length.

Of puns it has been said that those most dislike who are least able to utter them.

Better silent than stupid.

It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgement to be silent.

The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it.