Quotes About Eloquence

Don't tell readers what to think. Let the action speak for itself.

A great speech is literature.

Hubert Humphrey's wife is said to have advised him: "Darling, for a speech to be immortal it need not be interminable.

There is eloquence in the tongueless wind, and a melody in the flowing brooks and the rustling of the reeds beside them, which by their inconceivable relation to something within the soul, awaken the spirits to a dance of breathless rapture, and bring tears of mysterious tenderness to the eyes, like the enthusiasm of patriotic success, or the voice of one beloved singing to you alone.

silent those sweet lips, Once breathing eloquence That might have soothed a tiger's rage Or thawed the cold heart of a conqueror.

Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.

A proverb is an ornament to language.

He was a stylist, not a thinker. He spent time trying to say things in as complicated a way as possible.

“Please, Lord,” Moses replied, “I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since You have spoken to Your servant, for I am slow of speech and tongue.”

One of the servants answered, “I have seen a son of Jesse of Bethlehem who knows how to play the harp. He is a mighty man of valor, a warrior, eloquent and handsome, and the LORD is with him.”

Eloquent words are unfit for a fool; how much worse are lying lips to a ruler!

When I came to you, brothers, I did not come with eloquence or wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God.