Quotes About Eloquence

It is difficult to restrain admirers of Shakespeare once they have begun to speak of him.

Last words are for fools who haven't said enough

Clarity is the politeness of the man of letters.

He is an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy, lofty things impressively, and moderate things temperately.

Spintharus, speaking in commendation of Epaminondas, says he scarce ever met with any man who knew more and spoke less.

Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.

A sentence well couched takes both the sense and understanding. I love not those cart-rope speeches that are longer than the memory of man can fathom.

There is no eloquence without a man behind it.

The hearts of men are their books; events are their tutors; great actions are their eloquence.

When I go hear a man speak, I like to hear him speak like he's fighting a swarm of bees.

Men who have much to say use the fewest words.

There does not exist a man sufficiently intelligent never to be tiresome.

Those who listened to Lord Chatham felt that there was something finer in the man, than anything which he said.

An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.

Arguments, like men, are often pretenders.

Let any man speak long enough, he will get believers.

Depend upon it, sir, it is when you come close to a man in conservation that you discover what his real abilities are; to make a speech in a public assembly is a knack.

An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.

If I should say the sweetest speech with the eloquentest tongue that ever was in man, I were not able to express that restless care which I have ever bent to govern for the greatest wealth.

A man never becomes an orator if he has anything to say.

No man ever wrote more eloquently and luminously [than Heraclitus].

Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.

Vic pointed at him, two finger-guns of approval. "I like a man who knows the value of words, doesn't spend 'em too cheap." Ranulf nodded. "That is the manner in which I roll.

No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation.