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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

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.

Joshua Reynolds

Eloquence is the poetry of prose.

William Cullen Bryant

True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.

Heinrich Heine

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

Blaise Pascal

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things.

Ben Jonson

Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.

Blaise Pascal

Enthusiasm is always an interesting spectacle. When it expresses itself with an honest and artless eloquence, it is difficult to listen to it and not, in some degree, to catch the flame.

William Godwin

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

One man excels in eloquence, another in arms.

Virgil

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

Francis Bacon

Courage easily finds its own eloquence.

Plautus

Every idea is an incitement... eloquence may set fire to reason.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.

Frederick William Faber

As a preacher of the Gospel, our late venerable Bishop must have been heard, to form an adequate conception of his superior excellence and commanding eloquence.

John Strachan

It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.

Barbara Kruger

The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.

Nicolas Chamfort

Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.

John W. Gardner

Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.

Ambrose Bierce

It's true that interacting through text means no eyelines, no facial expressions, no tone of voice. That can be an advantage, helping us to consider content rather than eloquence, import rather than source.

Nick Harkaway

What I am looking for... is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is called the eloquence of silence, or what St. John of the Cross, I think it was, described with the term 'mute music'.

Joan Miro

False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.

William R. Alger

The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.

David Lloyd George

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.

Bertrand Russell

It was an argument of rare power and eloquence.

William Henry Moody

In Congress, there are some who are unashamed to aspire to eloquence, even to scholarship, but the only state legislator I ever knew who would not join in the mispronounceciation of a word for the sake of camaraderie with her fellows was former State Senator and Congresswoman Barbara Jordan.

Molly Ivins

The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.

Orson Welles

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

Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.

Henri Frederic Amiel

In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary.

Robert Fitzgerald

Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies.

Marshall McLuhan

Yeats regarded his work as the close of an epoch, and the least of his later lyrics brings the sense of a great occasion. English critics have tried to claim him for their tradition, but, heard closely, his later music has that tremulous lyrical undertone which can be found in the Anglo-Irish eloquence of the eighteenth century.

Austin Clarke

Of the modern critics, although I disagree with almost everything she says, I admire Mary McCarthy's eloquence and social observation in 'Sights and Spectacles'; she thinks in print, but she doesn't have a real feel for the stage.

John Lahr

Comedy has lost its eloquence.

Robert Klein