Eloquence Quotes - page 2

In painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter your manner. (John Ruskin)
There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted. View quote
Washington Irving
Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind. View quote
Joseph Addison
Eloquence resides as much in the tone of voice, in the eyes, and in the expression of the face, as in the choice of words. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Thare is no chance of hurrying bussiness here like in the legeslature of a State thare is such a desposition here to Show Eloquence that this will be a long Session and do no good... View quote
Davy Crockett
He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence. View quote
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen and sixteen hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example. View quote
Mario Cuomo
If children had teachers for judgment and eloquence as they have for languages, if their memory was exercised less than their energy or their natural genius, if instead of deadening their vivacity of mind we tried to elevate the free scope and impulses of their souls, what might not result from a fine disposition? As it is, we forget that courage, or love of truth and glory are the virtues that matter most in youth; and our one endeavor is to subdue our children's spirits, in order to teach them that dependence and suppleness are the first laws of success in life. View quote
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues
No words suffice the secret soul to show, For truth denies all eloquence to woe. View quote
Lord Byron
In such business Action is eloquence, and the eyes of the ignorant More learned than ears. (William Shakespeare)
Action is eloquence. View quote
William Shakespeare
The worshipful fader and first foundeur and enbelissher of ornate eloquence in our Englissh. I mene Maister Geffrey Chaucer. View quote
William Caxton
I have carefully and regularly perused the Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that the volume contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they may have been written. View quote
William Jones
My wife has been my greatest earthly inspiration. She excels in eloquence, the poetry of words, empathy and graciousness. View quote
George W. Romney
In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary. View quote
Robert Fitzgerald
If the art of eloquence is the art of persuading, there is no other eloquence but that of saying the truth, only the truth, the naked truth. Words, since it is a necessity of our infirm nature to clothe thought, will be the more powerful the more they are suited to their aim, that is the more naked they will leave the truth, which resides in thought. View quote
Vincenzo Cuoco
The House is composed of very good men, not shining, but honest and reasonably well-informed, and in time they will be found to improve, and not to be much inferior in eloquence, science, and dignity, to the British Commons. They are patriotic enough, and I believe there are more stupid (as well as more shining) people in the latter, in proportion. View quote
Fisher Ames
It was not her eloquence but her healing of the sick which raised Sharon to such eminence that she promised to become the most renowned evangelist in America. People were tired of eloquence; and the whole evangelist business was limited, since even the most ardent were not likely to be saved more than three of four times. But they could be healed constantly, and of the same disease. View quote
Sinclair Lewis
Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority. View quote
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Eloquence may strike the ear, but the language of poverty strikes the heart; the first may charm like music, but the second alarms like a knell. (Thomas Paine)
Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm. View quote
Blaise Pascal
Perhaps 'tis not strictly in accordance with the evidence ... but even the damned may salute the eloquence of Mr. Webster. View quote
Stephen Vincent Benét
Find in any country the Ablest Man that exists there; raise him to the supreme place, and loyally reverence him: you have a perfect government for that country; no ballot-box, parliamentary eloquence, voting, constitution-building, or other machinery whatsoever can improve it a whit. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Oceans of horse-hair, continents of parchment, and learned-sergeant eloquence, were it continued till the learned tongue wore itself small in the indefatigable learned mouth, cannot make unjust just. View quote
Thomas Carlyle