Walter Savage Landor Quotes

As reason is the glory of man, so the lamp of reason is eloquence.

Eloquence is the child of knowledge.

The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things.

False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.

Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information.

I've always been very wordy; I've got a great vocabulary.

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.

Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way.

Of all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory !!

I am not eloquent.

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it.

Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly each day.

To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.

Eloquence is the poetry of prose.

To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.

Talking and eloquence are not the same.

Eloquence may set fire to reason.

Use your logick, and then your rhetorick. Rhetorick without logick, is like a tree with leaves and blossoms, but no root; yet I confess more are taken with rhetorick than logick, because they are catched with a free expression, when they understand not reason. Logick must be natural, or it is worth nothing at all: Your rhetorick figures may be learned.

Great speech is impassioned; small speech cantankerous.

Some directors have the gift of the gab, but I don't.