Eloquence Quotes
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Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.
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There is something in the eloquence of the pulpit, when it is really eloquence, which is entitled to the highest praise and honour. The preacher who can touch and affect such an heterogeneous mass of hearers, on subjects limited, and long worn thread-bare in all common hands; who can say any thing new or striking, any thing that rouses the attention, without offending the taste, or wearing out the feelings of his hearers, is a man whom one could not (in his public capacity) honour enough.
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Eloquence; it requires the pleasant and the real; but the pleasant must itself be drawn from the true.
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That form of eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty.
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The worshipful father and first founder and embellisher of ornate eloquence in our English, I mean Master Geoffrey Chaucer.
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Eloquence is the art of saying as little as possible but making it sound as much as possible.
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I think public intellectuals have a responsibility - to be self-critical on the one hand, to do serious, nuanced work rigorously executed; but to also be able to get off those perches and out of those ivory towers and speak to the real people who make decisions; to speak truth to power and the powerless with lucidity and eloquence.
