David Lloyd George Quotes

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

Eloquence may set fire to reason.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Eloquence is the poetry of prose.

Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.

Talking and eloquence are not the same.

The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion.

He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.

Don't talk to me of your Archimedes' lever. He was an absentminded person with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands all my respect, but I have no use for engines. Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.

Great speech is impassioned; small speech cantankerous.

This fellow has a silver tongue

In oratory, affectation must be avoided; it being better for a man by a native and clear eloquence to express himself than by those words which may smell either of the lamp or inkhorn.

The most fluent talkers or most plausible reasoners are not only the justest thinkers.

Eloquence is an art of saying things in such a way—(1) that those to whom we speak may listen to them without pain and with pleasure; (2) that they feel themselves interested

There is nothing in the world like persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.

We can’t just run the government on political rhetoric and ideology.

Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative.

The right word is always a power, and communicates its definiteness to our action.

There is something in the eloquence of the pulpit, when it is really eloquence, which is entitled to the highest praise and honour. The preacher who can touch and affect such an heterogeneous mass of hearers, on subjects limited, and long worn thread-bare in all common hands; who can say any thing new or striking, any thing that rouses the attention, without offending the taste, or wearing out the feelings of his hearers, is a man whom one could not (in his public capacity) honour enough.

Speech is my hammer bang the world into shape now let it fall - HUNGH

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, 'Action, Action, Action.'

ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography.

Those orators who give us much noise and many words, but little argument and less wit, and who are the loudest when least lucid, should take a lesson from the great volume of nature; she often gives us the lightning without the thunder, but never the thunder without the lightning.

When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of Oratory, he answered, "Action," and which was the second, he replied, "action," and which was the third, he still answered "Action.

Eloquence is to the sublime what the whole is to the part.