Eloquent famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The simpler you say it, the more eloquent it is.
-- August Wilson -
These reasonings are unconnected: "I am richer than you, therefore I am better"; "I am more eloquent than you, therefore I am better." The connection is rather this: "I am richer than you, therefore my property is greater than yours;" "I am more eloquent than you, therefore my style is better than yours." But you, after all, are neither property nor style.
-- Epictetus -
Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.
-- Gloria Naylor -
If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times.
-- Johann Georg Hamann -
He says a million things without saying a word. I have never heard a more eloquent silence.
-- Laurie Halse Anderson -
Enthusiasm is very catching, especially when it is very eloquent.
-- Mary Russell Mitford -
Tears are at times as eloquent as words. [Weeping hath a voice.]
-- Ovid -
A sermon in shoes is often more eloquent than a sermon on paper.
-- Theodore L. Cuyler -
How frustrating it is to be out-argued by someone you know is dead wrong but is more eloquent.
-- Lawrence Fagg