Quotes About Eloquence

Silence is more eloquent than words.

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

It is proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.

True eloquence consists of saying all that should be said, and that only.

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

Winston [Churchill] has devoted the best years of his life to preparing his impromptu speeches.

In an easy cause any man may be eloquent.

The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion.

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile-driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack!

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.

A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.

His speech flowed from his tongue sweeter than honey.

Thoughts that breathe and words that burn.

He talks at the drop of a pause.

True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd.

True wit is nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

How forcible are right words!

Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affectation, Figures pedantical.

You (Pindar) who possessed the talent of speaking much without saying anything.

Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in.

The thoughtless are rarely wordless.

The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells.

True eloquence consists of saying all that should be, not all that could be, said.