Quotes
Quotes about Eloquence
Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.
True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.
False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.
False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.
Government is not reason, it is not eloquenceâit is force.
Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.
Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook the Arsenal, and fulmined over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne.
Eloquence may set fire to reason.
Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words or in good order.
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
The finest eloquence is that which gets things done: the worst is that which delays them.
