Mark Twain Quotes

Sometimes, to be silent is to be most eloquent.

Surely silence can sometimes be the most eloquent reply.

False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.

Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking.

There are people who don't say a thing and sound magnificent!

Silence is not silent. Silence speaks. It speaks most eloquently. Silence is not still. Silence leads. It leads most perfectly.

I've always had the ability to manipulate words and communicate ideas and thoughts.

Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.

Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.

Eloquence is the child of knowledge.

Nothing is so difficult to believe that oratory cannot make it acceptable, nothing so rough and uncultured as not to gain brilliance and refinement from eloquence.

Silence is often the most eloquent answer to our critics.

The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.

Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.

The ability to speak well is the shortcut to distinction.

He says a million things without saying a word. I have never heard a more eloquent silence.

A loud voice is not always angry; a soft voice not always to be dismissed; and a well-placed silence can be the indisputable last word.

Eloquence dwells quite as much in the hearts of the hearers as on the lips of the orator.

Where judgment has wit to express it, there's the best orator.

I feel that silence is the greatest word, ever. When you don't talk, people begin to read things into you or you become what they long for. When you don't talk, you almost become the mirror image of the other person.

The longer I live, the more I have come to value the gift of eloquence. Every American youth, if he desires for any purpose to get influence over his countrymen in an honorable way, will seek to become a good public speaker.

Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear.

The orator puts off his individuality, and is then most eloquent when most silent. He listens while he speaks, and is a hearer along with his audience.

Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good substitute for wisdom; but silence is the best that has yet been discovered.

Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable.