Quotes About Eloquence

No great talker ever did any great thing yet, in this world.

Felicity, not fluency of language, is a merit.

Don't worry about having the right words; worry more about having the right heart. It's not eloquence he seeks, just honesty.

It is better to be quotable than to be honest.

It's better to be quotable than to be honest.

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.

Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way.

Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

I like to use big words so people will think I know what I'm talking about.

It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.

Given a choice of weapons with you sir, I should choose grammar.

It is not the bigness of the words you utter, but the force with which you deliver them.

He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence.

Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.

A good orator must be a good listener

If I could but entice you with sentences and tongue tie you with words.

The good lawyer is the great salesman.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

He bent and laid his lips on her hands, which were cold and lifeless. She drew them away, and he turned to the door, found his coat and hat under the faint gas-light of the hall, and plunged out into the winter night bursting with the belated eloquence of the inarticulate.