eloquent speech Quotes

Always have something to say. The man who has something to say and who is known never to speak unless he has, is sure to be listened to.�

An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.

The Muse gave the Greeks genius and the art of the well-turned phrase.

Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one.

Pope John Paul II was a great presence on the stage. Pope Benedict is a much more gentle and refined person, and I think he benefits greatly from the television close-ups because he wants to engage in a dialogue, in conversation. He wants to put forward his views in a measured, eloquent, rational way.

Her fluency was marvelous. She would say things at random, intricate, flamelike, or slide off into a parenthetical limbo peppered with fireworks-- admirable linguistic feats which a practiced writer might struggle for hours to achieve.

Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .

An ill life will effectually drown the voice of the most eloquent ministry.

Fluency avoids hard thoughts.

They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.

Give a wise man an honest brief to plead and his eloquence is no remarkable achievement.

How comes it that you curse, Frere Jean? It's only, said the monk, in order to embellish my language. They are the colors of Ciceronian rhetoric.

As a flower that is lovely and beautiful, but is scentless, even so fruitless is the well-spoken word of one who practices it not.

Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

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.

The most attractive sentences are, perhaps, not the wisest, but the surest and roundest. They are spoken firmly and conclusively,as if the speaker had a right to know what he says, and if not wise, they have at least been well learned.

It was an argument of rare power and eloquence.

From his tongue flowed speech sweeter than honey.

Joel Cairo: You always have a very smooth explanation ready. Sam Spade: What do you want me to do, learn to stutter?

His words, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command. Ibid.

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

We cannot all hope to combine the pleasing qualities of good looks, brains, and eloquence.

If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song.

In the campaign of 1890 she made speeches so full of fiery eloquence, of righteous wrath, and fierce denunciation of the oppressors, that she became the delight of the people of the new party and the detestation of the followers of the old. Seldom, if ever, was a woman so vilified and so misrepresented by malignant newspaper attacks. A woman of other quality would have sunk under the avalanche. She was quite competent to cope with all that was visited upon her. Indeed, the abuse did her much service. The people but loved her the more for the enemies she made. Her chiefest distinguishing gift is her powerful voice; deep and resonant, its effect is startling and controlling. Her speeches are philippics. She hurls sentences as Jove hurled thunderbolts.

We have to reinvest, I think, in the idea of articulacy as a form of personal human freedom and power.