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Quotes About Eloquent

Harley Race was eloquent in his moves - everything made sense, like a hand in a glove.
~ Shane Douglas
for though the quiet of deep solitude reigned in that vast and nearly boundless forest, nature was speaking with her thousand tongues in the eloquent language of night in a wilderness. The air sighed through ten thousand trees, the water ripped, and at places even roared along the shores; and now and then was heard the creaking of a branch or a trunk, as it rubbed against some object similar to itself, under the vibrations of a nicely balanced body.
~ James Fenimore Cooper
You talk like a book.
~ Vladmir Nabokov
Though it may be, Jo, that there is a history so interesting and affecting even to minds as near the brutes as thine, recording deeds done on this earth for common men, that if the Chadbands, removing their own persons from the light, would but show it thee in simple reverence, would but leave it unimproved, would but regard it as being eloquent enough without their modest aid—it might hold thee awake, and thou might learn from it yet!
~ Charles Dickens
For such is the nature of man, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; Yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves: For they see their own wit at hand, and other mens at a distance.
~ Thomas Hobbes
It's not very hard to be clever. It's far harder to be simple, obvious, and meaningful.
~ Jake Barton
Language is the crowning achievement of human beings, and that is something Muslims have always known and revered. We are a literate people whose miracle is a Book from an unlettered man, peace and blessings be upon him, who was the most articulate and eloquent human being who ever lived. We honor our Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, in honoring language that he loved so much and used so well.
~ Hamza Yusuf
He was a windbag. He made a great many orations, and I imagine he did a very good job, but he was still a windbag
~ Harry Truman
Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.
~ Jane Austen
When the evening was over, Anne could not but be amused at the idea of her coming to Lyme, to preach patience and resignation to a young man whom she had never seen before; nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point in which her own conduct would ill bear examination.
~ Jane Austen
Ambos somos insociables, taciturnos, enemigos de hablar a menos que esperemos decir algo que deje boquiabierto a quien escucha y pase a la posteridad con el brillo de un proverbio - Lizzy Bennet.
~ Jane Austen
my idea of good company.. is the company of clever, well-informed people. who have a great deal of conversation.
~ Jane Austen
A fine preacher is followed and admired;
~ Jane Austen
My harmony is passable but is usually made more eloquent at the hands of Steve Hamilton.
~ Bill Bruford
I'm very opinionated, very intelligent and not afraid to show that.
~ Katori Hall
Bernie could talk a Baptist into burning a Bible
~ Pat Conroy
Obsession' is explained as 'the act of besieging' or 'the first attack of Satan, antecedent to possession'—a pair of definitions together more eloquent than the whole of Fatal Attraction.
~ Henry Hitchings
I'm an orator, a raconteur.
~ Ron Shock
Ordinary people can be very articulate and very eloquent.
~ Ken Loach
What would it be like, she thought, to be someone like that, eloquent and inspirational, so at ease in front of thousands?
~ Dave Eggers
She says what she has to say, and no more. May there be many like her,
~ Unknown
Olive trees are intimate creatures, eloquent in their twistedness. It's easy to understand why the ancients believed human spirits could be trapped inside them.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
Be eloquent, and deep, and tender; see, with a clear eye, into Nature and into life; spread your white wings of quivering thought, and soar, a god-like spirit, over the whirling world beneath you, up through long lanes of flaming stars to the gates of eternity!
~ Jerome K. Jerome
What does it matter what any of us says about anything? Nobody takes much notice of it, luckily for everybody. This reflection must be of great comfort to editors and critics. A conscientious man who really felt that his words would carry weight and influence with them would be almost afraid to speak at all. It is the man who knows that it will not make an ounce of difference to anyone what he says, that can grow eloquent and vehement and positive.
~ Jerome K. Jerome