Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Eloquence

True eloquence consists in saying all that is proper, and nothing more.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613–80) French Writer

There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation.
Victor Hugo (1802–85) French Novelist

Eloquence is relative.—One can no more pronounce on the eloquence of any composition, than on the wholesomeness of a medicine without knowing for whom it is intended.
Richard Whately (1787–1863) English Philosopher, Theologian

You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.
George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans) (1819–80) English Novelist

Eloquence is vehement simplicity.
Richard Cecil

When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.
Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw) (1818–85) American Humorist, Author, Lecturer

Eloquence is logic on fire.
Lyman Beecher (1775–1863) American Presbyterian Clergyman

It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
Tacitus (56–117) Roman Orator, Historian

True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613–80) French Writer

The manner of speaking is full as important as the matter, as more people have ears to be tickled than understandings to judge.
Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773) English Statesman, Man of Letters

Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies.
Marshall Mcluhan (1911–80) Canadian Writer, Thinker, Educator

If any thing I have ever said or written deserves the feeblest encomiums of my fellow countrymen, I have no hesitation in declaring that for their partiality I am indebted, solely indebted, to the daily and attentive perusal of the Sacred Scriptures, the source of all true poetry and eloquence, as well as of all good and all comfort.
Daniel Webster (1782–1852) American Statesman, Lawyer

There is no eloquence without a man behind it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

Great is the power of eloquence; but never is it so great as when it pleads along with nature, and the culprit is a child strayed from his duty, and returned to it again with tears.
Laurence Sterne (1713–68) Irish Anglican Novelist, Clergyman

There is not less eloquence in the voice, the eye, the gesture, than in words.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613–80) French Writer

The finest eloquence is that which gets things done; the worst is that which delays them.
David Lloyd George (1863–1945) British Liberal Statesman

Action is eloquence; the eyes of the ignorant are more learned than their ears.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright

He talked on for ever; and you wished him to talk on for ever.
William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English Essayist

Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding.
David Hume (1711–76) Scottish Philosopher, Historian

Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves.
William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English Essayist

The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
Cicero (106BCE–43BCE) Roman Philosopher, Orator, Politician, Lawyer

Eloquence is the transference of thought and emotion from one heart to another, no matter how it is done.
John Bartholomew Gough (1817–86) Anglo-American Temperance Orator

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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.
Cicero (106BCE–43BCE) Roman Philosopher, Orator, Politician, Lawyer

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.
Bertrand A. Russell (1872–1970) British Philosopher, Mathematician, Social Critic

The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object,—this, this is eloquence; or rather it is something greater and higher than all eloquence; it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action.
Daniel Webster (1782–1852) American Statesman, Lawyer

The truest eloquence is that which holds us too mute for applause.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803–73) British Novelist, Poet, Politician

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 (1572–1637) English Dramatist, Poet, Actor

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 (1782–1852) American Statesman, Lawyer

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