Eloquence Quotes - Page 3

• It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.

  Barbara Kruger

  Hard Work, Practice, Mind

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• Eloquence is the poetry of prose.

  William C. Bryant

  Prose

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• Let eloquence be flung to the dogs rather than souls be lost. What we want is to win souls. They are not won by flowery speeches.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Dog, Winning, Soul

  Charles Spurgeon (1989). “The Soul Winner”, p.223, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• What I am looking for... is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is called the eloquence of silence, or what St. John of the Cross, I think it was, described with the term 'mute music'.

  Joan Miro

  Thinking, Swag, Silence

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• Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.

  Blaise Pascal

  May, Cold, Appreciated

  Blaise Pascal, W. F. Trotter, T. S. Eliot (2003). “Pensees”, p.98, Courier Corporation

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• Eloquence is to the sublime what the whole is to the part.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Sublime, Whole

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• When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.

  Josh Billings

  Men, Talking, Sublime

  Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

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• Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

  George Washington

  Peace, War, Government

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• The longer I live, the more I have come to value the gift of eloquence. Every American youth, if he desires for any purpose to get influence over his countrymen in an honorable way, will seek to become a good public speaker.

  George Frisbie Hoar

  Desire, Purpose, Way

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• In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary.

  Robert Fitzgerald

  Latin, Vocabulary, Use

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• Copiousness of words, however ranged, is always false eloquence, though it will ever impose on some sort of understandings.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Understanding

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.117

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• If you are feeling something, then Shakespeare felt it and wrote about it - and wrote about it so eloquently.

  Richard McCabe

  Feelings, Felt, Ifs

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• Manner, as much as matter, constitutes eloquence.

  Francois Delsarte

  Matter

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• The art of saying well what one thinks is different from the faculty of thinking. The latter may be very deep and lofty and far- reaching, while the former is altogether wanting.

  Joseph Joubert

  Art, Thinking, Different

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• God gave you that gifted tongue of yours, and set it between your teeth, to make known your true meaning to us, not to be rattled like a muffin man's bell.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Teeth, Bells

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• But to a higher mark than song can reach,
  Rose this pure eloquence.

  William Wordsworth

  Song, Rose, Mark

  William Wordsworth (1832). “The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth”, p.242

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• When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.

  Martial

  Crowds, Banquets, Eloquent

  Martial (1871). “The Epigrams of Martial”, p.283

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• In oratory affectation must be avoided; it being better for a man by a native and clear eloquence to express himself than by those words which may smell either of the lamp or inkhorn.

  Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury

  Men, Smell, Lamps

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• In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself; when consciously he makes himself the mere tongue of the occasion and the hour, and says what cannot but be said. Hence the term "abandonment" to describe the self- surrender of the orator. Not his will, but the principle on which he is horsed, the great connection and crisis of events, thunder in the ear of the crowd.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Self, Triumph

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.25, Harvard University Press

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• Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Energy, Organs, Appropriate

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Culture, Behavior, Beauty: Books, Art Eloquence. Power, Wealth, Illusions”

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• No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts upon him, and makes the speech.

  James A. Garfield

  Men, Mind, Speech

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• There is no eloquence which does not agitate the soul.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Soul, Doe, Agitate

  Walter Savage Landor (1868). “Indexes. Table of first lines. Imaginary conversations”, p.220

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• Great is the power of Eloquence; but never is it so great as when it pleads along with nature, and the culprit is a child strayed from his duty, and returned to it again with tears.

  Laurence Sterne

  Children, Tears, Culprit

  Laurence Sterne, Melvyn New, Geoffrey Day (2006). “A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy: And, Continuation of the Bramine's Journal : with Related Texts”, p.239, Hackett Publishing

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• Extemporaneous and oral harangues will always have this advantage over those that are read from a in manuscript: every burst of eloquence or spark of genius they may contain, however studied they may have been beforehand, will appear to the audience to be the effect of the sudden inspiration of talent.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Inspiration, Genius, May

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.456

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• Take eloquence and wring its neck.

  Paul Verlaine

  Necks

  Paul Verlaine (1981). “Paul Verlaine, his absinthe-tinted song”, Ams Pr Inc

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