Eloquence Quotes
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Buffon, who, with all his theoretical ingenuity and extraordinary eloquence, I suspect had little actual information in the science on which he wrote so admirably For instance, he tells us that the cow sheds her horns every two years; a most palpable error. ... It is wonderful that Buffon who lived so much in the country at his noble seat should have fallen into such a blunder I suppose he has confounded the cow with the deer.
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Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.
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Of the modern critics, although I disagree with almost everything she says, I admire Mary McCarthy's eloquence and social observation in 'Sights and Spectacles'; she thinks in print, but she doesn't have a real feel for the stage.
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Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.
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Great eloquence we cannot get, except from human genius.
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You have witchcraft in your lips, there is more eloquence in a sugar touch of them than in the tongues of the French council; and they should sooner persuade Harry of England than a general petition of monarchs.
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It is true that despite occasional gleams of Churchillian eloquence he [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] usually spoke poorly. He was far more effective in conversations a deux. But those who dismiss him as shallow because his rhetoric was fustian err.
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Philosophy may be dodged, eloquence cannot.
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We may put too high a premium on speech from platform and pulpit, at the bar and in the legislative hall, and pay dear for the whistle of our endless harangues. England and especially Germany, are less loquacious, and attend more to business. We let the eagle, and perhaps too often the peacock, scream.
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Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable.
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Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
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O, let my books be then the eloquence And dumb presagers of my speaking breast, Who plead for love, and look for recompense, More than that tongue that more hath more expressed.
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Finally, everybody agrees that no one pursuit can be successfully followed by a man who is preoccupied with many things-eloquence cannot, nor the liberal studies-since the mind, when distracted, takes in nothing very deeply, but rejects everything that is, as it were, crammed into it. There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living: there is nothing that is harder to learn.
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False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.
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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.
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True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only.
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Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves.
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In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.
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The nature of our constitution makes eloquence more useful and more necessary in this country than in any other in Europe.
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Eloquence is logic on fire.
