Quotes on Eloquence

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

Eloquence: saying the proper thing and stopping.

There is at least as much eloquence in the voice, eyes, and air of a speaker as in his choice of words.

Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises, and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetic.

True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.

La vraie e loquence se moque de l'e loquence, la vraie morale se moque de la morale. True eloquence has notime foreloquence, true morality has no time for morality.

Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us.

Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information.

from you, my dear Erasmus, let me obtain this request, that just as I bear with your ignorance in these matters, so you in turn will bear with my lack of eloquence.

Say she rail; why, I'll tell her plain She sings as sweetly as a nightingale. Say that she frown; I'll say she looks as clear As morning roses newly wash'd with dew. Say she be mute and will not speak a word; Then I'll commend her volubility, and say she uttereth piercing eloquence.

Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which the language is capable of is terribly important to the human beings because this is connected to thought.