#eloquence

Every idea is an incitement... Eloquence may set fire to reason. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#every #fire #idea #incitement #may

Love makes a subtle man out of a crude one, it gives eloquence to the mute, it gives courage the cowardly and makes the idle quick and sharp. ↗

— Juan Ruiz

#cowardly #crude #eloquence #gives #idle

The finest eloquence is that which gets things done. ↗

— David Lloyd George

#eloquence #finest #gets #things #which

You are the king no doubt, but in one respect, at least, I am your equal: the right to reply. I claim that privilege too. I am not your slave. I serve Apollo. I don't need Creon to speak for me in public. So, you mock my blindness? Let me tell you this. You with your precious eyes, you're blind to the corruption in your life, to the house you live in, those you live with- who are your parents? Do you know? All unknowing you are the scourge of your own flesh and blood, the dead below the earth and the living here above, and the double lash of your mother and your father's curse will whip you from this land one day, their footfall treading you down in terror, darkness shrouding your eyes that now can see the light! Soon, soon, you'll scream aloud - what haven won't reverberate? What rock of Cithaeron won't scream back in echo? That day you learn the truth about your marriage, the wedding-march that sang you into your halls, the lusty voyage home to the fatal harbor! And a crowd of other horrors you'd never dream will level you with yourself and all your children. There. Now smear us with insults - Creon, myself and every word I've said. No man will ever be rooted from the earth as brutally as you. ↗

— Robert Fagles

#eloquence #incest #prophecy #prophet #sight

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

#native-american-wisdom #nature #oratory #silence #wisdom

False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis. ↗

— William R. Alger

#emphasis #exaggeration #false #true

Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning. ↗

— Frederick William Faber

#eloquence #kindness #learning #more #sinners

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

#humour #speech #art

Our relationship was convoluted and was mired in cross-cultural vicissitude.Our promising friendship faltered after she became a supermodel.What prejudice could not destroy was extinguished by fame and a lucrative modeling contract. ↗

— Fidelis O Mkparu

#friendship