Quotes About Eloquence

I am a humble speaker, I speak very well.

Andy Andrews is the best speaker I have ever seen.

I think the key attributes for a good speaker are someone that's articulate and someone that puts a fair amount of humour into what they do.

Silence is ever speaking; it is the perennial flow of language.

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

It is said that Obama speaks 'professorially,' a fact that understates the quickness and agility of his mind.

I think my play speaks for itself.

I love the power of words - no music or special effects - and I want to demonstrate that power.

Enthusiasm is always an interesting spectacle. When it expresses itself with an honest and artless eloquence, it is difficult to listen to it and not, in some degree, to catch the flame.

Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as a religious.

A great speech is literature.

As a Shakespeare character, if you can persuade someone in a sentence or a speech, you've got it right.

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

We had an exercise in speech class in school, impromptu speaking, that I was always real good at.

Obama isn't good off the cuff, especially when challenged; he is far better with a prepared speech.

At some point early on, I realized that three of the greatest speeches ever delivered were by Winston Churchill, and they were written and delivered within a four-week period of each other.

I still can't spell anything, but I can bust out two-dollar words.

A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.

It is the first rule in oratory that a man must appear such as he would persuade others to be: and that can be accomplished only by the force of his life.

When the wise man opens his mouth, the beauties of his soul present themselves to the view, like the statues in a temple.

The ability to speak is a short cut to distinction. It puts a man in the limelight, raises him head and shoulders above the crowd.