Quotes About Eloquence

We speak with our lips to explain, with our throats to convince.

Pero ya es sabido que la elocuencia está en el oído de quien oye.

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit?

There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.

It is a wiser, more generous, more noble thing to remember and point out the perfect words, than to invent poorer ones, wherewith to encumber temporarily the world.

Meaningful prayer is a matter of the heart, not the eloquence of the words.

I used to always crack jokes in class. I was a good liar and a good talker. I was just good. I was my father's son. I was slick. When it comes to knowing what to say, to charm, I always had it.

The worshipful father and first founder and embellisher of ornate eloquence in our English, I mean Master Geoffrey Chaucer.

Accepting the challenges in life makes it interesting and overcoming them makes it eloquent.

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.

It's a lousy salesman who talks too much.

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

The aim of forensic oratory is to teach, to delight, to move.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in artificial graces, delights us.

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

Some people are born with words flowing in their veins.

The right word is always a power, and communicates its definiteness to our action.

We have to reinvest, I think, in the idea of articulacy as a form of personal human freedom and power.

A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest

An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.