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Eloquence Quotes

Thou didst, in strains of eloquence refin'd, Inflame the soul, and captivate the mind.

Thou didst, in strains of eloquence refin'd, Inflame the soul, and captivate the mind.

Phillis Wheatley (2001). “Complete Writings”, p.115, Penguin

Forensics is eloquence and reduction.

Gertrude Stein (2012). “How to Write”, p.386, Courier Corporation

Take eloquence and wring its neck.

Paul Verlaine (1981). “Paul Verlaine, his absinthe-tinted song”, Ams Pr Inc

True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (Maxims and Moral Sentences, No. 262), 1922.

Continuous eloquence wearies.

Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.122, Cosimo, Inc.

Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves.

William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1484, Delphi Classics

There is an art in silence, and there is an eloquence in it too.

Frank Bettger (2009). “How I Raised Myself From Failure”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.

Edgar Allan Poe, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sir Walter Scott, Wilhelm Hauff (2011). “The Best Ghost Stories 1800-1849: A Classic Ghost Anthology”, p.17, Bottletree Books LLC

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

"Pensées", XXIV. 88 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 219-220), 1922.

Great eloquence we cannot get, except from human genius.

Thomas Starr King (1864). “The White Hills: Their Legends, Landscape, and Poetry”, p.59

Prayer is not eloquence but earnestness.

"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 458), 1895.