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In my opinion, it was chiefly owing to their deep contemplation in their silent retreats in the days of youth that the old Indian orators acquired the habit of carefully arranging their thoughts. They listened to the warbling of birds and noted the grandeur and the beauties of the forest. The majestic clouds–which appear like mountains of granite floating in the air–the golden tints of a summer evening sky, and the changes of nature, possessed a mysterious significance. All of this combined to furnish ample matter for reflection to the contemplating youth. .Francis Assikinack
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To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Joel Cairo: You always have a very smooth explanation ready. Sam Spade: What do you want me to do, learn to stutter?Dashiell Hammett
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Anything you say at this point cannot be trusted. You know I am well and truly angry, so you are in the grip of fear. This means I cannot trust any word you say, as it comes from fear. You are clever, and charming, and a liar. I know you can bend the world with your words. So I will not listen.Patrick Rothfuss
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In prayer, God doesn’t want your words, he wants your heart. He doesn’t track your eloquence, he treasures your soul.Todd Stocker
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In prayer, God does want your words, he wants your heart. He doesn’t track your eloquence, he treasures your soul.Todd Stocker
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I want to hear you wound my lovely language with your rough barbarian tongue.Patrick Rothfuss
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Surely silence can sometimes be the most eloquent reply.Unknown
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Poets. have the toughest jobin the universe-of turning silenceinto eloquence.Sanober Khan
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Eloquence.– We need both what is pleasing and what is real, but that which pleases must itself be drawn from the true.Blaise Pascal
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You must speak straight so that your words may go as sunlight into our hearts.Cochise (Like Ironweed)
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True eloquence is irresistible. It charms by its images of beauty, it enforces an argument by its vehement simplicity. Orators whose speeches are "full of sound and fury, signifying nothing, " only prevail where truth is not understood, for knowledge and simplicity are the foundation of all true eloquence. Eloquence abounds in beautiful and natural images, sublime but simple conceptions, in passionate but plain words. Burning words appeal to the emotions as well as to the intellect; they stir the soul and touch the heart.Albert Ellery Bergh
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Eloquence is the poetry of prose.William Cullen Bryant
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The manner of your speaking is full as important as the matter as more people have ears to be tickled than understandings to judge.Lord Chesterfield
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Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.Samuel L. Clemens
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Thoughts that breathe and words that burn.Thomas Gray
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True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary and nothing but what is necessary.La Rochefoucauld