Quotes About Eloquence

It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in it's place is a work extremely troublesome.

If you just communicate, you can get by. But if you communicate skillfully, you can work miracles.

It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.

Creative expression requires an ability to work with feelings and channel them. Frustration, dissatisfaction, and even a sense of desperation may help you access an eloquence you never knew existed.

I am averse to incompetency. I need mentally stimulating people and intelligent conversations.

I used to watch old clips of Muhammad Ali, where he'd be talking the jive during interviews, you know, 'Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee, rumble, man, rumble.'

I have a great story to tell... and I tell it well. No holds barred.

How the word is spoken can dramatically impact the power of the spoken word.

An ambassador seeks to speak the right thing in the best way.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, 'there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.' A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.

it would be a very good thing if people were taught how to speak. Language is the noblest instrument we have, either for the revealing or the concealing of thought; talk itself is a sort of spiritualized action; and conversation is one of the loveliest of the arts.

I feel I must come with you. And will you talk to me all the time? No one talks so wonderfully as you do.

The rich would have spoken on the value of thrift and the idle grown eloquent over the dignity of labour.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Sono così intelligente che a volte non capisco una sola parola di quel che sto dicendo.

Lots of people act well, but very few people talk well, which shows that talking is much the more difficult thing of the two, and much the finer thing also.

An alliterative prefix served as an ornament of oratory.

Conversation is one of the loveliest of the arts.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. dup

She doesn't care much for eloquence in others.  She thinks it a little loud. [

I'm so clever, I don't understand half of the things I'm saying.

though the conversation always touched an exceptionally high level of brilliance, there was apt to be a good deal of sugar thrown about.

Mere surprise, however, was never enough to prevent Psmith talking.

I said, 'Don't talk rot, Old Tom Travers. I am not accustomed to talk rot, he said. Then, for a beginner, I said, you do it dashed well.