Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes About Rhetoric

Quotes about: Rhetoric

• None but those who have loved can be supposed to understand the oratory of the eye, the mute eloquence of a look, or the conversational powers of the face. Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words, and resorts to the pantomime of sighs and glances.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Love, Heart, Eye

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.34

• The language of the heart--the language which "comes from the heart" and "goes to the heart"--is always simple, always graceful, and always full of power, but no art of rhetoric can teach it. It is at once the easiest and most difficult language--difficult, since it needs a heart to speak it; easy, because its periods though rounded and full of harmony, are still unstudied.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Art, Simple, Needs

• Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Love, Heart, Rhetoric

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.34

• A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Flower, Feelings, Letters

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.34

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