Quotes About Eloquent

He was naturally more eloquent, had a ready plenty of words, and sometimes, as I thought, bore me down more by his fluency than by the strength of his reasons. As

He could talk a ravenous dog off the back end of a meat wagon.

Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.

Physical things are eloquent tokens of ideas,enriched by new meanings through time even when the tokens are no more than evanescent paper representations.

He is eloquent and persuasive; and once his words had even power over my heart: but trust him not. His soul is as hellish as his form, full of treachery and fiend-like malice. Hear

Of course, all murderers and all oppressors have a long list of grievances against their victims, only most are not as eloquent as Humbert Humbert.

Bill Clinton was relentless, eloquent and truly charming.

The professor was looking at Theodosia; he knew with resigned amusement that he was about to become the owner of the little dog. She wasn't going to ask, but the expression on her face was eloquent.

Dick Durbin's a worthy opponent on any debate. He's very intelligent, quick. Knows his facts and puts them forward well.

Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.

James Taylor is the kind of person I always thought the word 'folksinger' referred to. He writes and sings songs that are reflections of his own life, and performs in them in his own style. All of his performances are marked by an eloquent simplicity.

I'm not one of those people who writes long soliloquies.

For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.

Your lips are like fingers?

I wasn't the guy everyone liked. I was the guy that wouldn't shut up.

No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.

No clergyman however brilliant, no evangelist no matter how eloquent or compelling, can bring about the revival we need. Only the Holy Spirit can do this.

Politic, cautious, and meticulous; full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse

Kentrell had an innuendo-filled manner of speaking

On the exoteric level the traditions are irreconcilable. On the esoteric, experiential level of the heart reigns an eloquent, reverential silence.

She sought to be eloquent in her garments, and to make up for her diffidence of speech by a fine frankness of costume

Some of the things you say are sublime and monstrous at once.

There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.

Shakespeare esque!