Eloquence Quotes

Talking and eloquence are not the same:
to speak and to speak well are two things.
A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
?Ben Johnson

Eloquence is logic on fire.
?Lyman Beecher

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

Eloquence is the poetry of prose.
?William C. Bryant

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
?Blaise Pascal

As the grace of man is in the mind,
so the beauty of the mind is eloquence.
?Proverb

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

True eloquence consists in saying
all that is necessary, and
nothing but what is necessary.
?François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

False eloquence is exaggeration;
true eloquence is emphasis.
?William R. Alger