ELOQUENCE

Related Subjects: Language, Oratory, Persuasion, Preacher, Speech, Tongue, Words

1. Eloquence is logic on fire.—LYMAN BEECHER
   

2. The truest eloquence is that which holds us too mute for applause.—BULWER-LYTTON
   

3. Eloquence is vehement simplicity.—RICHARD CECIL
   

4. The manner of speaking is full as important as the matter, as more people have ears to be tickled than understandings to judge.—LORD CHESTERFIELD
   

5. There is no eloquence without a man behind it.—EMERSON
   

6. The pleasure of eloquence is in greatest part owing often to the stimulus of the occasion which produces it—to the magic of sympathy which exalts the feeling of each, by radiating on him the feeling of all.—EMERSON
   

7. Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves.—HAZLITT
   

8. 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.—BEN JONSON
   

9. There is not less eloquence in the voice, the eye, the gesture, than in words.—LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Maxims
   

10. True eloquence consists in saying all that is proper, and nothing more.—LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Maxims
    

11. There was no man of his time like Antony for addressing a multitude, or for carrying soldiers with him by the force of words.—PLUTARCH, Lives
    

12. As the grace of man is in the mind, so the beauty of the mind is eloquence.—Proverb
    

13. He that has no silver in his purse, should have silver on his tongue.—Proverb

14. Unprofitable eloquence is like the cypress, which is great and tall, but bears no fruit.—Proverb
    

15. A grand eloquence, little conscience.—Proverb
    

16. It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.—SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS
    

17. Rev. Samuel J. May: Mr. Garrison, you are too excited—you are on fire!
    
    William Lloyd Garrison: I have need to be on fire, for I have icebergs around me to melt.—SANDBURG: Abraham Lincoln
    

18. Turn him to any cause of policy,
    The Gordian knot of it he will unloose,
    Familiar as his garter: that when he speaks,
    The air, a chartered libertine, is still.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry V
    

19. Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.—SHAKESPEARE, Venus and Adonis
    

20. True eloquence does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must consist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion.—DANIEL WEBSTER
    

21. Choice word and measured phrase, above the reach
    Of ordinary men.—WORDSWORTH, Resolution and Independence