Moliere Quotes

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

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.

Words let us say the things we want to say and also things we would be better off not having said. They let us know the things we need to know, and also things we wish we didn't.

Words are how people think. When you misuse words, you diminish your ability to think clearly and truthfully.

Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.

Words are powerful. When I make mistakes I just try to come back and clarify what I meant.

How or by what magic is it, that we convey our thoughts to one another with such case and accuracy?

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

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

When the public doesn't understand me, it's a battle. So when I choose words, I choose them for their musicality, rhythm, and sense, and I choose the right dialect to express that.

He understood for the first time that the world is not dumb at all, but merely waiting for someone to speak to it in a language it understands.

Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

Grasp the subject, the words will follow.

The first requisite of style, not only in rhetoric, but in all compositions, is perspicuity.

Everyone knows how to talk, and no one knows what to say.

Why do we embroider everything we say with special emphasis when all we really need to do is simply say what needs to he said? Of course the fact is that there is very little that needs to be said.

Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

Now, what we are not talking about, what you're really coming to, is what compromises one makes so that the listener understands somewhat of what you're doing, what you're trying to express.

If I have something to say, I want it to be meaningful.

If we do away with semi-colons, parentheses and much else, we will lose all music, nuance and subtlety in communication - and end up shouting at one another in block capitals.