(45 quotes found)
“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief...and unspeakable love.”
Washington Irving
“Action is eloquence.”
William Shakespeare
“Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding.”
David Hume
“Continued eloquence is wearisome”
Blaise Pascal
“Often there is eloquence in a silent look”
Latin Proverb
“Borrowed eloquence, if it contains as good stuff, is as good as own eloquence”
John Adams
“Take eloquence and wring its neck.”
Paul Verlaine
“The worshipful father and first founder and embellisher of ornate eloquence in our English, I mean Master Geoffrey Chaucer”
William Caxton
“Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.”
William Jennings Bryan
“In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.”
Ovid
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