22 Eloquence Quotes for You to Enjoy

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts. Blaise Pascal

Thoughts Communication Painting Eloquence

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence. Marcus Tullius Cicero

Great Eloquence Charm Brevity

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

Reflection Understanding Eloquence Address Willing Entirely Highest Leaves Affections Itself Pitch Little Room Reason Captivating Desires

Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage. John W. Gardner

Strength Courage Judgment Eloquence Find Some Diverse Leaders Come County Qualities Styles Hear Quiet Forms Next Many

Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted. Washington Irving

Enthusiasm Eloquence Indeed True Doubted

Yeats regarded his work as the close of an epoch, and the least of his later lyrics brings the sense of a great occasion. English critics have tried to claim him for their tradition, but, heard closely, his later music has that tremulous lyrical undertone which can be found in the Anglo-Irish eloquence of the eighteenth century. Austin Clarke

Work Music Great Sense Eloquence Lyrical Lyrics Later Claim Tried Critics Occasion Him Least Tradition His Heard Yeats Close Closely Eighteenth Eighteenth Century Regarded Which Century Epoch English Found Brings

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

Democracy Eloquence Citizens Immunity Importance Acquire Utmost Utmost Importance

True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary. Heinrich Heine

Saying Nothing Eloquence Consists True Necessary

The 1960s was a period when writers in the West began to be aware of the extraordinary eloquence and popular attraction of the Russian poets such as Yevtushenko and Voznesensky - oppositional figures who could draw crowds. The Russian poets recited from memory as a matter of course. James Fenton

Memory Matter Eloquence Extraordinary Draw Russian Poets Crowds Could Writers Period Attraction Course West Began Who Figures Popular Aware

What I am looking for... is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is called the eloquence of silence, or what St. John of the Cross, I think it was, described with the term 'mute music'. Joan Miro

Music Silence Looking Think Eloquence Would Would-Be Immobile Mute John Cross Something Term Am Equivalent Movement Which

War, in our country, ought never to be resorted to but when it is clearly justifiable and necessary; so much so as not to require the aid of logic to convince our understanding nor the ardour of eloquence to inflame our passions. There are many reasons why this country should never resort to it but for causes the most urgent and necessary. John C. Calhoun

War Country Understanding Aid Eloquence Resort Ought Our Logic Never Clearly Most Causes Passions Nor Inflame Urgent Much Convince Require Should Reasons Many Why Necessary

As a preacher of the Gospel, our late venerable Bishop must have been heard, to form an adequate conception of his superior excellence and commanding eloquence. John Strachan

Superior Eloquence Late Our Bishop Adequate Must Excellence Venerable Conception Gospel Been His Commanding Heard Preacher Form

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

Today Eloquence Classics Classroom Nor Models Which Agencies Ad

Courage easily finds its own eloquence. Plautus

Courage Own Eloquence Easily Finds

What shaped my politics regarding war and peace was Martin Luther King Jr., the most extraordinary person that I ever heard. And when he began to talk about the issues of war and peace with such eloquence and such passion, I was drawn to that like a magnet. Ron Dellums

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One man excels in eloquence, another in arms. Virgil

Man Eloquence One-Man Arms Another

I enjoy trolls. They try to shake my confidence and bring me down with such remarks, but they never knew they helped me grow. They saw my curly hair, they saw my dark color, they saw my short stature and they started making memes. I know they can mock my appearance but they cannot claim I am corrupt or talk about my education or my eloquence. Tamilisai Soundararajan

Education Me Confidence I Am Dark Try Hair Down Enjoy Eloquence Saw Claim Memes Stature Corrupt About Shake Color Remarks Never Knew Know Talk Making Am Mock Curly Short Cannot Helped Appearance Grow Bring Started

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