Quotes About Eloquence

Do not be deceived by a man's eloquence; rather whoever fulfils trusts and refrains from impugning people's honour is a real man.

As the grace of man is in the mind, so the beauty of the mind is eloquence.

I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.

To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

How I shall miss Alan Rickman, his beautiful command of English, and a voice he played like a musical instrument.

He wasn't a good talker under the best of circumstances. If she needed someone killed, he was her man, but trying to sound suave and sophisticated was far beyond any ability he had.

that an article of mine was well argued but dull, and advised me briskly to write "more like the way you talk.

As in plain terms (yet cunningly) he crav'd it; / Love always makes those eloquent that have it (II.71-2).

Love always makes those eloquent that have it. ---From Hero and Leander, Sestiad II

In the right hands, words can move more bricks than the strongest team of mules.

There are words that give power, others that make us all the more derelict

My boy, this is the second time today that wisdom has spoken through your mouth...!

He always delivered these tirades extemporaneously and had never yet been known to read a prepared speech. The

You know, Sanger, Barnum may have said that it matters not what is said about you so long as it is said, but I am eloquent enough to knock that theory into a cocked hat should I be required to do so.

A flower should smell sweet, and a woman should have wit.

He understood how to say the grandest things in the most vulgar of idioms. As he spoke all tongues, he entered into all hearts.

I don't need to kill goats to say things. I CAN talk.

She was… damn it, she was everything. Witty, enchanting, brave, smart… and beautiful. And he knew that his eyes were saying all that and that she wasn't turning away.

There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!

It is the glory and the merit of some men to write well, and of others not to write at all.

It is a sad thing when men have neither enough intelligence to speak well nor enough sense to hold their tongues.

To express truth is to write naturally, forcibly, and delicately.

What the people call eloquence is the facility some persons have of speaking alone and for a long time, aided by extravagant gestures, a loud voice, and powerful lungs.