Quotes About Eloquence

Articulation is the tongue-tied's fighting

He spoke her name as though he held cinnamon in his mouth.

There is eloquence in screaming.

saying nothing with the practiced ease of a politician

Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable.

If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument.

You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.

Nothing is more certain than much of the force; as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.

I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one would say to the same person by word of mouth.

There is an art in silence, and there is an eloquence in it too.

There is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.

In oratory the greatest art is to hide art.

Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.

The laurels of an orator who is not a master of literary art wither quickly.

Eloquence is heard; poetry is overheard ... All poetry is of the nature of the soliloquy.

It is a happy art to know when one has said enough. I would leave my hearers wishing me to say more rather than give them cause toshow, by their inattention, that I had said too much.

Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful

Men of few words are the best men. (3.2.41)

You have witchcraft in your lips, there is more eloquence in a sugar touch of them than in the tongues of the French council; and they should sooner persuade Harry of England than a general petition of monarchs.

Educated men are so impressive!

That man that hath a tongue, I say is no man, if with his tongue he cannot win a woman.

Say she rail; why, I'll tell her plain She sings as sweetly as a nightingale. Say that she frown; I'll say she looks as clear As morning roses newly wash'd with dew. Say she be mute and will not speak a word; Then I'll commend her volubility, and say she uttereth piercing eloquence.

In such business Action is eloquence, and the eyes of th' ignorant More learned than the ears.

Thou sodden-witted lord! thou hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows.