Beauty is silent eloquence.
Often there is eloquence in a silent gaze.
False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.
There is nothing so eloquent as the rattlesnake's tail.
Nothing speaks more eloquently than money.
An idiot is eloquent when he stays silent.
As the grace of man is in the mind, so the beauty of the mind is eloquence.
No man was ever eloquent by trying to be eloquent, but only by being so.
An eloquent cock crows as soon as it comes out of the egg.
Eloquence avails nothing against the voice of gold.
Money is more eloquent than twelve members of parliament.
True eloquence is irresistible. It charms by its images of beauty, it enforces an argument by its vehement simplicity. Orators whose speeches are "full of sound and fury, signifying nothing," only prevail where truth is not understood, for knowledge ...
Don't think you are eloquent just because a fool applauds you.
Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none.
I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century it was symphonic music and the novel. For various technical and artistic reasons, film became that eloquent medium for the 20th century.
A ham sandwich is better than nothing. Nothing is better than eternal happiness. So eternal happiness is beaten by a ham sandwich.
So Shakespeare stole; but he did wonderful things with his plunder. He's like somebody who nicks your old socks and then darns them.
The topic was eloquence, something Christians had been conflicted about since the first-century church when Paul wrote that in bringing the gospel, he did not come with “eloquence.” A few centuries later, Saint Augustine wrestled with the value o...
Eloquence is the poetry of prose.
Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
A poet is not somebody who has great thoughts. That is the menial duty of the philosopher. A poet is somebody who expresses his thoughts, however commonplace they may be, exquisitely. That is the one and only difference between the poet and everybody...
