Quotes about Eloquence
An ambassador seeks to speak the right thing in the best way.
- Timothy Lane
Conversation is one of the loveliest of the arts.
- Oscar Wilde
To win friends and influence others in today's world takes less than clever rhetoric. It takes the understated eloquence of grace and self-deprecation.
- Dale Carnegie
A well-made sentence, I think, is a thing of beauty.
- Wendell Berry
Poetry is only the highest eloquence of passion, the most vivid form of expression that can be given to our conception of anything, whether pleasurable or painful, mean or dignified, delightful or distressing. It is the perfect coincidence of the image and the words with the feeling we have, and of which we cannot get rid in any other way, that gives an instant satisfaction to the thought. This is equally the origin of wit and fancy, of comedy and tragedy, of the sublime and pathetic.
- William Hazlitt
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
- George Washington
The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.
- George Lucas
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot
A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.
- Benjamin Disraeli
If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.
- Khalil Gibran
Andy Andrews is the best speaker I have ever seen.
- Zig Ziglar