Quotes of: Eloquence Keyword

Words impress me. If a man can speak eloquently and beautifully to me, I just melt on the floor.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

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

Marshall McLuhan

The universe is a symphony of strings, and the mind of God that Einstein eloquently wrote about for thirty years would be cosmic music resonating through eleven-dimensional hyper space.

Michio Kaku

For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.

Alfred Nobel

Many of the most eloquent people I have ever met work in lab coats every day.

Michael Specter

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

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

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Love is a rhythm of the Heart that often uses no words, yet speaks so eloquently to the soul

Tom Hackett

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

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?

Thomas Carlyle

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

Bertrand Russell

A lot of the Koran does not speak very eloquently to a Westerner. Much of it is either legalistic or opaquely poetic.

John Updike

Victor was the first to speak, and when he did, it was with an eloquence and composure perfectly befitting the situation

V.E. Schwab

Myths of the heroes speak most eloquently of man's quest to choose life over death.

Hero: Myth/image/symbol, The

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

Orson Welles

It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as a religious.

Saint Ignatius

A dull speech which is full of truths is much more brilliant than an eloquent speech which is full of lies!

Mehmet Murat ildan

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

Stephen Covey

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

Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.

Gloria Naylor