Eloquence Quotes - Page 2

Eloquence is to the sublime what the whole is to the part.

Manner, as much as matter, constitutes eloquence.

There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation.

It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.

If you are feeling something, then Shakespeare felt it and wrote about it - and wrote about it so eloquently.

There is no eloquence without a man behind it.

Copiousness of words, however ranged, is always false eloquence, though it will ever impose on some sort of understandings.

It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.

One who has accumulated virtue will certainly also possess eloquence; but he who has eloquence doe not necessarily possess virtue.

The less there is of eloquence, the more there is of love.

True eloquence scorns eloquence.

Eloquence is the child of knowledge.

There is no eloquence which does not agitate the soul.

Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative.

Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy.

And how moving is the eloquence of the untaught when it is the heart that is speaking!

There is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.

Philosophy will tell you what to say, eloquence will tell you how to say it

There is no talent so pernicious as eloquence to those who have it under command.

Continued eloquence is wearisome.

A moment of eloquence enthralls us. An hour's worth leaves us stupefied.

They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]

I am not as eloquent as Stephane Dion.

Eloquence; it requires the pleasant and the real; but the pleasant must itself be drawn from the true.

He spoke with more eloquence than wisdom.