Quotes About Eloquence

The dullest man in the world is charming beyond belief when he's pouring gold coins from one hand to the other.

Give a wise man an honest brief to plead and his eloquence is no remarkable achievement.

When a wise man chooses a sane basis for his arguments, it is no great task to speak well.

It really is true that an orator is simply a good man who speaks well.

Style ... is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.

Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have.

The ability to talk well is to a man what cutting and polishing are to the rough diamond. The grinding does not add anything to the diamond. It merely reveals its wealth.

The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent.

Speak but little and well, if you would be esteemed as a man of merit.

The tongue of man is a twisty thing, there are plenty of words there of every kind.

So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence.

No one can blather on like a holy man with a trapped audience. Well, maybe a politician.

This oration will be read five hundred years hence with as much rapture as it was heard. It ought to be read at the end of every century, and indeed at the end of every year, forever and ever.

Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.

True eloquence forgoes eloquence.

To money, the finest linguist in the world!

My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument."

Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.

He was created of a mother whom He created. He was carried by hands that He formed. He cried in the manger in wordless infancy. He, the Word, without whom all human eloquence is mute.

I recognize but one mental acquisition as a necessary part of the education of a lady or gentlemen, namely, an accurate and refined use of the mother tongue.

My father's wit, and my mother's tongue, assist me!

You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.

To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.