Eloquence Quotes

In my opinion, it was chiefly owing to their deep contemplation in their silent retreats in the days of youth that the old Indian orators acquired the habit of carefully arranging their thoughts.They listened to the warbling of birds and noted the grandeur and the beauties of the forest. The majestic clouds—which appear like mountains of granite floating in the air—the golden tints of a summer evening sky, and the changes of nature, possessed a mysterious significance.All of this combined to furnish ample matter for reflection to the contemplating youth.

~ Francis Assikinack

Radite na tome da budete elokventni.Vecina njih zna samo da prica,mnogo vise nego sto treba.

~ Tamara Stamenkovic

Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.

~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Joel Cairo: You always have a very smooth explanation ready.Sam Spade: What do you want me to do, learn to stutter?

~ Dashiell Hammett

I may be deprived of eloquence, but my mind can never be a dumb.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

[Giordano] Bruno died, despised and suffering, after eight years of agony. From that moment, his works have attracted interest, and he has long been recognized as an important figure in the development of modern thought. Nevertheless, few are familiar with the many and often bewildering pages of his writings. His Italian works have their place in the history of Italian literature. The Latin works in prose and verse are much more bulky and diffuse, but the few who grapple with them are rewarded by passages of great beauty and eloquence.

~ Dorothea Singer

I try to think of things to say but nothing comes, and if something did come I probably couldn't say it. This is my great obstacle, the biggest of all the boulders littering my path. In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the highest cathedral ceilings and paint my thoughts. But when I open my mouth, it all collapses.

~ Isaac Marion

Anything you say at this point cannot be trusted. You know I am well and truly angry, so you are in the grip of fear. This means I cannot trust any word you say, as it comes from fear. You are clever, and charming, and a liar. I know you can bend the world with your words. So I will not listen.

~ Patrick Rothfuss

In prayer, God doesn’t want your words, he wants your heart. He doesn’t track your eloquence, he treasures your soul.

~ Todd Stocker

Good communication has just a little to do with eloquence. It's character that makes it more successful. Harsh words nicely articulated are sharp enough to kill your brand!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

in prayer, God does want your words, he wants your heart. He doesn’t track your eloquence, he treasures your soul.

~ Todd Stocker

I want to hear you wound my lovely language with your rough barbarian tongue.

~ Patrick Rothfuss

The Biblical language was so deeply embedded in the great man's mind that it became his normal way of speaking.

~ Elton Trueblood

poets. have the toughest jobin the universe-of turning silenceinto eloquence.

~ Sanober Khan

Choose your words meticulously and then let them rumble up from some deep furnace of conviction.

~ Ron Suskind

Eloquence is painted thought, and thus those who, after having painted it, add somewhat more, make a picture, not a portrait.

~ Blaise Pascal

Eloquence.— We need both what is pleasing and what is real, but that which pleases must itself be drawn from the true.

~ Blaise Pascal

The truth is the very definition of excellence.

~ Loron-Jon Stokes

You must speak straight so that your words may go as sunlight into our hearts.

~ Cochise (Like Ironweed)

Courage easily finds its own eloquence.

~ Plautus

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

Eloquence is the poetry of prose.

~ William C. Bryant