Eloquent Quotes

Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.

In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.

I am not the most eloquent guy in the world.

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.

If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times.

Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.

My harmony is passable but is usually made more eloquent at the hands of Steve Hamilton.

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.

There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.

No man was ever eloquent by trying to be eloquent, but only by being so.

Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.

I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century it was symphonic music and the novel. For various technical and artistic reasons, film became that eloquent medium for the 20th century.

The dinosaur's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good, an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.

No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless.

Silence is more eloquent than words.

When I wear high heels I have a great vocabulary and I speak in paragraphs. I'm more eloquent. I plan to wear them more often.