Quotes About Eloquence

I am not the most eloquent guy in the world.

In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.

The ancients, who in these matters were not perhaps such blockheads as some may conceive, considered poetical quotation as one of the requisite ornaments of oratory.

Movements are as eloquent as words.

Speak less and say more

Here again is one grand element of a preacher's success. He must labour by all means to be understood. It was a wise saying of Archbishop Usher, "To make easy things seem hard is every man's work; but to make hard things easy is the work of a great preacher.

You can't say as much as you can in writing, but you can say what you say with great conviction.

Vigorous writing is concise.

A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.

The prime purpose of eloquence is to keep other people from talking.

Though old the thought and oft expressed, 'Tis his at last who says it best.

O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.

Eloquence in public assemblies is not the surest road to fame and preferment, at least unless it be used with great caution, very rarely, and with great reserve.

I shall be delivered, like a noble closing speech. I shall be, in a word, said.

The man with whom you are so impressed will beguile with that tongue of his twenty who do not know him.2 Do

to put it as philosopher-poet Ralph Waldo Emerson did, "To be simple is to be great.

We should never lower our dignity by lowering our language.

They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.

He talked with more claret than clarity

It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.

They don't need a lawyer, they need a toastmaster.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

It's amazing how people believe you if you use long words.

It was a very powerful politeness.