I may be deprived of eloquence, but my mind can never be a dumb.

To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.

Joel Cairo: You always have a very smooth explanation ready.Sam Spade: What do you want me to do, learn to stutter?

It is the heart which inspires eloquence.

Eloquence is the painting of thought ...

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

A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well.

Continuous eloquence wearies.

Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the models of eloquence, but the ad agencies.

True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only.

Eloquence lies as much in the tone of the voice, in the eyes, and in the speaker's manner, as in his choice of words.

There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation.

He that has no silver in his purse should have silver on his tongue.

The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.

Everything that steel achieves in war can be won in politics by eloquence.

William F. Buckley, Jr. does not speak so much as exhale, but he exhales polysyllabically, and the results are remarkable.