Eloquent Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  Emily Post

  Women, Believe, Worry

  EMILY POST (1950). “ETIQUETTE”

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• The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.136, Penguin

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• 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.

  Meg Ryan

  Vocabulary, High Heels, Speak

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

  Billy Graham

  Prayer, Hands, Bless

  Billy Graham (1966). “The Quotable Billy Graham”

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

  George Henry Lewes

  Men, Trying

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• I am not the most eloquent guy in the world.

  Dave Pelzer

  Guy, World

  "No pain, no gain". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. February 15, 2004.

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• The eloquent voice of our century uttered, shortly before leaving the world, a warning cry against the "Anglo- Saxon contagion.

  Matthew Arnold

  Voice, Leaving, Warning

  Matthew Arnold (1964). “Matthew Arnold's essays in criticism: first and second series”

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• The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it.

  Mark Twain

  Silence, Progressive, Achieve

  Mark Twain (2016). “Mark Twain in Eruption (Abridged, Annotated)”, p.154, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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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, Eloquence

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

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• In an easy cause any man may be eloquent.

  Ovid

  Men, May, Causes

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• So shines a good deed... in a weary world.

  Gene Wilder

  Thank You, Veterans Day, Helping Others

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• Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

  Aldous Huxley

  Freedom, Brave New World, Views

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• Surely silence can sometimes be the most eloquent reply.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Islamic, Silence, Sometimes

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• Eloquence may set fire to reason.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Fire, May, Reason

  "Gitlow v. People of New York, 268 U.S. 652". Judicial opinion, 1925.

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• False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.

  William Rounseville Alger

  Exaggeration Is, White Collar, Emphasis

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• In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

  Plato

  Witty, Plato, Cities

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• The most eloquent seems to stutter.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Seems

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• I wanted to feel the blood running back into my veins, even at the cost of annihilation. I wanted to shake the stone and light out of my system. I wanted the dark fecundity of nature, the deep well of the womb, silence, or else the lapping of the black waters of death. I wanted to be that night which the remorseless eye illuminated, a night diapered with stars and trailing comets. To be of night so frighteningly silent, so utterly incomprehensible and eloquent at the same time. Never more to speak or to listen or to think.

  Henry Miller

  Running, Stars, Eye

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• We looked at each other for the last time; nothing is as eloquent as nothing.

  David Mitchell

  Lasts, Last Time

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.347, Random House

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• Speak to me...be eloquent, be brilliant for me. Improvise! Rhapsodize!... I ask for cream and you give me milk and water... Please gather your dreams together into words. - Roxanne, Cyrano de Bergerac

  Edmond Rostand

  Dream, Giving, Water

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• Go, write it in a martial hand; be curst and brief; it is no matter how witty, so it be eloquent and fun of invention: taunt him with the licence of ink: if thou thou'st him some thrice, it shall not be amiss; and as many lies as will lie in thy shee.

  William Shakespeare

  Witty, Fun, Lying

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed (1778). “The Plays of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes: With Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.232

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• I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. No other person has been more eloquent and passionate in getting this idea across than Henry David Thoreau. As a result of his writings and personal witness, we are the heirs of a legacy of creative protest.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Writing, Ideas, Evil

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• Daughter to that good Earl, once President Of England's Council, and her Treasury, Who lived in both, unstained with gold or fee, And left them both, more in himself content, Till sad the breaking of that Parliament Broke him, as that dishonest victory At Chaeronea, fatal to liberty, Killed with report that old man eloquent. Though later born than to have known the days Wherein your father flourished, yet by you, Madam, methinks I see him living yet; So well your words his noble virtues praise, That all both judge you to relate them true, And to possess them, honoured Margaret.

  John Milton

  Life, Daughter, Father

  John Milton (1822). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With the Life of the Author ...”, p.216

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• A sermon in shoes is often more eloquent than a sermon on paper.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Shoes, Paper, Sermons

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