eloquence quotes

I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me.

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

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

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don’t know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.

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.

Silence is more eloquent than words.

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.