Eloquence

(236 votes)   There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation.

Victor Hugo
1802-1885, French Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(184 votes)   True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld
1613-1680, French Classical Writer

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(130 votes)   The eloquent man is he who is no eloquent speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(130 votes)   The finest eloquence is that which gets things done; the worst is that which delays them.

David Lloyd George
1863-1945, British Statesman, Prime Minister

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(110 votes)   When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.

Josh Billings
1815-1885, American Humorist, Lecturer

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(102 votes)   He talked on for ever; and you wished him to talk on for ever.

William Hazlitt
1778-1830, British Essayist

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(97 votes)   You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.

George Eliot
1819-1880, British Novelist

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(79 votes)   The longer I live, the more I have come to value the gift of eloquence. Every American youth, if he desires for any purpose to get influence over his countrymen in an honorable way, will seek to become a good public speaker.

George F. Hoar

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

Marcus T. Cicero
c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician

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