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Eloquence Quotes
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There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief..and unspeakable love. (Quote by - Washington Irving)
He talked on for ever; and you wished him to talk on for ever. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours (Quote by - Alan Bennett)
Eloquence is logic on fire. (Quote by - Lyman Beecher)
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
The finest eloquence is that which gets things done; the worst is that which delays them. (Quote by - David Lloyd George )
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary. (Quote by - Robert Fitzgerald)
No man ever did or ever will become truly eloquent without being a constant reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language. (Quote by - Fisher Ames)
The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. (Quote by - Augustine of Hippo)
There is not only an art, but an eloquence in it. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. (Quote by - Ernest Hemingway)
Often there is eloquence in a silent look. (Quote by - Latin Proverb)