Quotes about Eloquence
He has something we don't have, he has the word.
- Margaret Atwood
Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
- Cicero
It is positively because he is quick-witted that he is long-winded.
- George Bernard Shaw
I have a hyperbolical tongue: it catches fire as it goes. I dare say I shall have to retract.
- George Eliot
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
- St. Augustine
I have always revered not crude verbosity but holy simplicity.
- Saint Jerome
For they wished to fill the winepress of eloquence not with the tendrils of mere words but with the rich grape juice of good sense.
- Saint Jerome
Ulysses was not comely, but he was eloquent, Yet he fired two goddesses of the sea with love
- Soren Kierkegaard
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence. It is force. And force, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
- George Washington
No amount of scholastic attainment, of able and profound exposition of brilliant and stirring eloquence can atone for the absence of a deep impassioned sympathetic love for human souls.
- David Brainerd
Wilberforce, only twenty-four himself, was Pitt's greatest ally there, and he stood staunchly by his friend's side during this time, both of them using their powerful oratorical skills to the fullest.
- Eric Metaxas
And when a politician abuses his office and uses his power for his own aggrandizement, Biblical people should rise up and protest with all of the insistence, courage, and eloquence of Nathan in the court of David.
- Robert Barron