Eloquence Quotes
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The worshipful father and first founder and embellisher of ornate eloquence in our English, I mean Master Geoffrey Chaucer.
William Caxton
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Eloquence is the poetry of prose.
William Cullen Bryant
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The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.
Thomas Carlyle
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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.
Michael Eric Dyson
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Eloquence is the art of saying as little as possible but making it sound as much as possible.
Evan Esar
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Eloquence; it requires the pleasant and the real; but the pleasant must itself be drawn from the true.
Blaise Pascal