Quotes About Eloquence

Dead men's words are so much more powerful than those of the living

My work speaks for itself.

rhetoric is will doing the work of imagination.

An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

I've been a longtime admirer of Condoleezza Rice, because I like her articulateness and style - her toughness and rigor.

Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.

I only know about a few things, but I am quite good at bluffing. There are a whole range of subjects, including the Renaissance, which I am prepared to sound expert on.

No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.

Toutes les opinions ne se valent pas, et il ne faut pas confondre l'éloquence d'une parole avec la justesse d'une pensée.

Charm is the ability to make someone think that both of you are quite wonderful.

Don't use a big word where a diminutive one will suffice.

Sometimes I want to suck on a beautiful word. To lick it clean.

Once upon a time I was such a good liar; I could talk the fish right into my mouths.

charmed the words out of

My language! heavens!I am the best of them that speak this speech. Were I but where 'tis spoken.

the trouble was he had nothing to say, but he loved saying it.

What the hell kind of person was capable of sounding erudite while losing blood out of his face by the pint?

What's a good lawyer besides a superior bullshitter?...

Suppose all I have fallen in love with is that voice deliciously phrasing its English sentences? The man who died for the soothing sound of a highly calibrated relative clause.

Brute force outraged her, I think, because it was outside her beloved realm of language, and in response to it she really had nothing to say.

I love and admire the late actor Farooq Shaikh and his style of speaking.

Our bashful fears, our silent interjections, our blushes, as we met each other's eyes, were expressive with an eloquence, a boyish charm, which I have ceased to feel. One must remain young, no doubt, to understand youth.

He who trains his tongue to quote the learned sages will be known, far and wide, as a smart-ass.

The greatest writers can project their message in the fewest of words.