Quotes About Eloquent

Levi is one of the best authors I've ever read. It's hard not to have an immediate personal response to his work. He has such a quiet tone.

Crap," I said. I'm quite eloquent in times of crisis

I cannot keep from talking, even at the risk of being instructive.

In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.

My gift seems to be that I am able to tell a story in a comprehensible and engaging way.

Pope John Paul II was a great presence on the stage. Pope Benedict is a much more gentle and refined person, and I think he benefits greatly from the television close-ups because he wants to engage in a dialogue, in conversation. He wants to put forward his views in a measured, eloquent, rational way.

Fate loves best such syllables as are sweet and sonorous on the tongue.

They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.

and pleasure? What is it that I am tasting?' The most eloquent rabbi and writer of Hasidic mysticism, Abraham Joshua Heschel, left Warsaw in 1939 to become an important

As president, Lincoln was an intelligent communicator. He was careful about what he said, and he thought before he spoke.

Sometimes I think you can look at a person and know they are full of words.

Decision has greater virtue and force if taken after there has been eloquent dissent.

Les mots qui ont un son noble contiennent toujours de belles images.

A despot doesn't fear eloquent writers preaching freedom- he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.

America remained a land of promise for lovers of freedom. Even Byron, at a moment when he was disgusted with Napoleon for not committing suicide, wrote an eloquent stanza in praise of Washington.

The goal is not to make something factually impeccable, but seamlessly persuasive.

Sallust was particularly eloquent on the theme. In his other surviving essay, on a war against the North African king Jugurtha at the end of the second century BCE, he reflects on the dire consequences of the destruction of Carthage: from the greed of all sections of Roman society ('every man for himself'), through the breakdown of consensus between rich and poor, to the concentration of power in the hands of a very few men. These all pointed to the end of the Republican system.

a masterly performance. Fulsome and vapid, laden with insincere warmth and hidden barbs, his introductory speech had nevertheless left no legitimate grounds for complaint.

He was a good talker—the sort of man who could sell lumber to a woodcutter.

Her words were as sharp as an eyeful of sand. She never raised her voice. It was the kind of voice that never needed to be raised. It cut words to a fine point and launched them decisively (page 88).

Alcohol, I had learned, was an eloquent if somewhat inaccurate interpreter. I had placed my trust that December night in glass after glass of it, eager not for drink but for a bit of talk.

Poetry is an eloquent painting of emotions, a prosaic sense of reality.

Hamilton, [Melancton Smith] said, spoke 'frequently, very long, and very vehemently,' and 'like publius,' had 'much to say' that was 'not very applicable to the subject' at hand.

Meanwhile a Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, came to Ephesus. He was an eloquent man, well versed in the Scriptures.