Quotes about Eloquence

He was created of a mother whom He created. He was carried by hands that He formed. He cried in the manger in wordless infancy. He, the Word, without whom all human eloquence is mute.

There is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Eloquent words are unfit for a fool; how much worse are lying lips to a ruler!

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats—and one always secretes too much jelly.

Words without poetry lack passion; words without passion lack persuasion; words without persuasion lack power.

Conversation is one of the loveliest of the arts.

Arguments out of a petty mouth are unanswerable.

to put it as philosopher-poet Ralph Waldo Emerson did, "To be simple is to be great.

Addison writes with the ease of a gentleman. His readers fancy that a wise and accomplished companion is talking to them; so that he insinuates his sentiments and taste into their minds by an imperceptible influence. Johnson writes like a teacher. He dictates to his readers as if from an academical chair. They attend with awe and admiration; and his precepts are impressed upon them by his commanding eloquence.

The aim of forensic oratory is to teach, to delight, to move.

A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.