Quotes About Eloquence

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

He has more tongues in his head than some have teeth.

Yet it is folly to argue against determined hardness; eloquence may strike the ear, and the language of sorrow draw forth the tear of compassion, but nothing can reach the heart that is steeled with prejudice.

The wise, and the worthy, need not the triumph of a pamphlet;

A man who has the knowledge but lacks the power clearly to express it is no better off than if he never had any ideas at all.

And that's why people no longer care which words they use as long as they use lots of them.

today people use as many words as they can and think themselves very wise for doing so, For always remember that while it is wrong to use too few, it is often far worse to use too many.

Even if that's just bullshit, sir, it's first-rate bullshit.

She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.

If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.

What is the good of being ready with the tongue? They who encounter men with smartnesses of speech for the most part procure themselves hatred. I know not whether he be truly virtuous, but why should he show readiness of the tongue?

get more stupider.

The ability to speak is a shortcut to distinction. It puts a person in the limelight, raises one head and shoulders above the crowd. And the person who can speak acceptably is usually given credit for an ability out of all proportion to what he or she really possesses.

leadership usually gravitates to the man who can get up and say what he thinks.

he can make every word he speaks draw blood

He knew how to be impolite without being rude.

Upon subjects which interested him, and when quite at ease, he possessed that flow of natural, and somewhat florid eloquence, which has been supposed as powerful as figure, fashion, fame, or fortune, in winning the female heart. There

The less there is of eloquence, the more there is of love.

He may not have the eloquence of a ready tongue, but will have that eloquence which is of the heart. His concern in the study will be not merely to prepare sermons, but, even more, to prepare his own heart. And when he preaches it will not be in feeble whispers, but with the spiritual vitality of the prophets and apostles, of whom he is a lineal descendant.

she would fill the silence with her own sweet voice.

With great patience, and eloquence, she assures her readers that within the chaos of our shame and disappointment and rage there is meaning, and within that meaning is the possibility of rescue.

In this sense, Tiny Beautiful Things can be read as a kind of ad hoc memoir. But it's a memoir with an agenda. With great patience, and eloquence, she assures her readers that within the chaos of our shame and disappointment and rage there is meaning, and within that meaning is the possibility of rescue.

Fie, what a spendthrift is he of his tongue!