Quotes about Eloquence
to put it as philosopher-poet Ralph Waldo Emerson did, "To be simple is to be great.
- John Maxwell
The truth is mightier than eloquence, the Spirit greater than genius, faith more than education.
- Martin Luther
There is a use herein of the natural abilities of invention, memory, and elocution. Why should not men use in the service and worship of God what God hath given them that they may be able to serve and worship him?
- John Owen
A man will be eloquent if you give him good wine.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
- Heinrich Heine
With words we govern men.
- Benjamin Disraeli
What is sweeter than lettered ease?
- Cicero
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
- Thomas Jefferson
Arguments are to be avoided, they are always vulgar and often convincing.
- Oscar Wilde
leadership usually gravitates to the man who can get up and say what he thinks.
- Dale Carnegie
he can make every word he speaks draw blood
- Walt Whitman
That silence is one of the great arts of conversation is allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an art, but even an eloquence in it.
- Hannah More