Quotes About Eloquence

Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love, With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art.

It is the doctrine of the popular music-masters, that whoever can speak can sing. So, probably, every man is eloquent once in his life. Our temperaments differ in capacity of heat, or

From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way.

True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man's nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.

Radite na tome da budete elokventni.Vecina njih zna samo da prica, mnogo vise nego sto treba.

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabb

Philosophy will tell you what to say, eloquence will tell you how to say it

There are too many windbags in this world. Speak only when you are competent in a subject - It produces dignity." - L. R. W. Lee Andy Smithson: Blast of the Dragon's Fury

I've got magic. I've got poetry at my fingertips.

Nothing is so improving to the temper as the study of the beauties either of poetry, eloquence, music, or painting.

Truth is poetry; it is the grandest poetry.

The poetry of speech.

I want to have a romance so grand, it would have made Shakespeare fumble for words.

Public Speaking is very easy.

I could throw 56-pound words clear across the Grand Canyon. As a matter of course, I went into politics.

It's not my accent, but my brevity makes me stylish.

What we need is not more learning, not more eloquence, not more persuasion, not more organization, but more power from the Holy Spirit.

If a man has enough power, he can speak softly and everyone will listen

A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.

False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.

With pen and with pencil we're learning to say Nothing, more cleverly every day.