52 Quotes About Eloquence

The arguments themselves did not appear to me to be any better simply because they were better expressed; eloquence did not make them true."St. Augustine page 85

But then her formality quickly melted away, the veil of adulthood she wore temporarily as a costume."-p. 273

Melodiousness rolled over her tongue and out of her mouth whenever she spoke. Her eloquence equaled her elegance.

A picture can utter nothing to describe itself. - On the Eloquence of Pictures

Fine style does not make something true, nor has a man a wise soul because he has a handsome face and well-chosen eloquence.

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.

I can never bring you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace.

The truth is the very definition of excellence.

She had this way, when she wasn't talking about foreign politics or global warming, of making sense of all the complex things I never knew how to describe.