Eloquent
Having the power of expressing strong emotions or forcible arguments in an elevated, impassioned, and effective manner; as, an eloquent orator or preacher.
Adapted to express strong emotion or to state facts arguments with fluency and power; as, an eloquent address or statement; an eloquent appeal to a jury.
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Eloquent Quotations
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
George Washington
The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless.
Billy Graham
No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.
George Eliot
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
In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.
Ovid
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
Silence is more eloquent than words.
Thomas Carlyle
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
If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
Thomas Carlyle
No man was ever eloquent by trying to be eloquent, but only by being so.
George Henry Lewes
Eloquent Translations
eloquent in Dutch is welsprekend
eloquent in Italian is facondo
eloquent in Latin is facundus, eloquens
eloquent in Spanish is elocuente
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