Quotes About Eloquence

Lady Underhill, having said all she had to say, recovered her breath and began to say it again. Frequent iteration was one of her strongest weapons. As her brother Edwin, who was fond of homely imagery, had often observed, she could talk the hind-leg off a donkey. You

Mere surprise, however, was never enough to prevent Psmith talking. He began at once.

Her eye was aflame, and she spoke like Cleopatra telling an Ethiopian slave where he got off.

He scattered his aitches as a fountain its sprays in a strong wind. He was very earnest.

He was a long, slender youth, with green eyes, jet-black hair, and a passionate fondness for the sound of his own voice.

Then I speak to her in a language she has never heard, I speak to her in Spanish, in the tongue of the long, crepuscular verses of Díaz Casanueva; in that language in which Joaquín Edwards preaches nationalism. My discourse is profound; I speak with eloquence and seduction; my words, more than from me, issue from the warm nights, from the many solitary nights on the Red Sea, and when the tiny dancer puts her arm around my neck, I understand that she understands. Magnificent language!

Communication appears to be deceptively easy. However, most of us carry a major misconception about the process: that communication is primarily message sending. Communication does not take place until someone receives the message and understands it as the sender intended. The most eloquent speech or the most beautifully composed letter isn't a successful communication if it misses the mark.

You can say anything, anything, if it is beautifully said.

President Lincoln was a master communicator, and humility was at the heart of all he said.

A eloquência de um líder costuma ser parte importante desse processo, mas o essencial é sua visão interior. Ele deve ser capaz de comunicá-la com vigor, mediante palavras ou ações.

To win friends and influence others in today's world takes less than clever rhetoric. It takes the understated eloquence of grace and self-deprecation.

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.

Mark Twain once opined in his homey way: "The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.

I discovered that the difference between finding the right word as opposed to accepting the almost right word was the difference between being struck by lightning and merely watching a lightning display.

In this verse, it clearly attests to Job's eloquent declaration of hope and complete trust in God. And Job replied, "I know that my Redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand upon the earth. And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God."

Had Windham possessed discretion in debate, or Sheridan in conduct, they might have ruled their age.

A well-made sentence, I think, is a thing of beauty.

Poetry is only the highest eloquence of passion, the most vivid form of expression that can be given to our conception of anything, whether pleasurable or painful, mean or dignified, delightful or distressing. It is the perfect coincidence of the image and the words with the feeling we have, and of which we cannot get rid in any other way, that gives an instant satisfaction to the thought. This is equally the origin of wit and fancy, of comedy and tragedy, of the sublime and pathetic.

Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.

At all events, the next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to quote another's wit.

Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.

Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and of life.

Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life.

He contrasts it with eloquence. And what a noble gift it is, the power of playing upon the souls and wills of men, and rousing them to lofty purposes and holy deeds! Paul says, "If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal." We all know why. We have all felt the brazenness of words without emotion, the hollowness, the unaccountable unpersuasiveness, of eloquence behind which lies no Love.