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Eloquence is the poetry of prose.
View quotes by William C Bryant

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
View quotes by Francis Bacon

True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary
View quotes by Duc De La Rochefoucauld

True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.
View quotes by Heinrich Heine

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
View quotes by Martin Tupper

That silence is one of the great arts of conversation is allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an art, but even an eloquence in it
View quotes by Hannah More

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force... Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
View quotes by George Washington

The worshipful father and first founder and embellisher of ornate eloquence in our English, I mean Master Geoffrey Chaucer
View quotes by William Caxton

Eloquence is an engine invented to manage and wield at will the fierce democracy, and, like medicine to the sick, is only employed in the paroxysms of a disordered state.
View quotes by Montaigne

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 personalised.
View quotes by Barbara Kruger

There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!
View quotes by Jean De La Bruyere

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things.
View quotes by Ben Jonson

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.
View quotes by John Gardner

How often in the halls of legislation does eloquence unmask corruption, expose intrigue, and overthrow tyranny! In the cause of mercy it is omnipotent. It is bold in the consciousness of its superiority, fearless and unyielding in the purity of its motives. All opposition it destroys; all power it defies.
View quotes by Henry Melville



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