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Eloquent Quotes

Eloquent Definition

Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.
William Jennings Bryan

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

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
George Washington

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.
Aldous Huxley

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.
Walter Murch

Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.
Emily Post

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

If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times.
Johann G. Hamann

In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.
Ovid

My harmony is passable but is usually made more eloquent at the hands of Steve Hamilton.
Bill Bruford

No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.
George Eliot

No man was ever eloquent by trying to be eloquent, but only by being so.
George Henry Lewes

No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.
Fisher Ames

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

Silence is more eloquent than words.
Thomas Carlyle

Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
Thomas Hobbes

The dinosaur's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good, an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.
Eric Johnston

The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless.
Billy Graham

There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.
Augustus Hare

When I wear high heels I have a great vocabulary and I speak in paragraphs. I'm more eloquent. I plan to wear them more often.
Meg Ryan

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