Eloquence famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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When we rely upon organization, we get what organization can do; when we rely upon education, we get what education can do; when we rely upon eloquence, we get what eloquence can do. And so on. But when we rely upon prayer, we get what God can do.
-- A. C. Dixon -
Eloquence dwells quite as much in the hearts of the hearers as on the lips of the orator.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
-- Ben Jonson -
The less there is of eloquence, the more there is of love.
-- Charles Perrault -
The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.
-- David Lloyd George -
Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.
-- Edgar Allan Poe -
Manner, as much as matter, constitutes eloquence.
-- Francois Delsarte -
There is an art in silence, and there is an eloquence in it too.
-- Frank Bettger -
Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.
-- Frederick William Faber -
True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.
-- Heinrich Heine -
Yep.†Eloquence ’R’ Us. When in trouble, keep it monosyllabic—safer that way.
-- Ilona Andrews -
What I am seeking... is a motionless movement, something equivalent to what is called the eloquence of silence...
-- Joan Miro -
In painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter your manner.
-- John Ruskin -
It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.
-- Joshua Reynolds -
What manly eloquence could produce such an effect as woman's silence?
-- Jules Michelet -
Philosophy will tell you what to say, eloquence will tell you how to say it
-- Marcus Cornelius Fronto -
Copiousness of words, however ranged, is always false eloquence, though it will ever impose on some sort of understandings.
-- Mary Wortley Montagu -
If you are feeling something, then Shakespeare felt it and wrote about it - and wrote about it so eloquently.
-- Richard McCabe -
Great eloquence we cannot get, except from human genius.
-- Thomas Starr King -
There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation.
-- Victor Hugo -
There is no eloquence which does not agitate the soul.
-- Walter Savage Landor -
False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.
-- William Rounseville Alger -
Our common future is badly served when the eloquence of our attack on the other fellow exceeds the energy with which we cooperate with them.
-- Clarence Francis -
Thou didst, in strains of eloquence refin'd, Inflame the soul, and captivate the mind.
-- Phillis Wheatley
