eloquence quotes

  It cannot reasonably be doubted, but a little miss, dressed in a new gown for a dancing-school ball, receives as complete enjoyment as the greatest orator, who triumphs in the splendour of his eloquence, while he governs the passions and resolutions of a numerous assembly.

- David Hume
^2  Essays Moral, Political and Literary,'The Sceptic'.

Qui Deus a dune   esci e« nce e de parler bone eloquence, ne s'en deit taisir ne celer, ainz se deit voluntiers mustrer. Whoever God has given knowledge and eloquence in speaking, should not be silent or secretive, but should willingly show it.

-Jose   Carlos Maria t egui
c.1170  Lais, prologue, l.1^4.

Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence, native to famous wits

-John Milton
Paradise Regained, bk.4, l.240^1.

La vraie e  loquence se moque de l'e  loquence, la vraie morale se moque de la morale. True eloquence has no time foreloquence, true morality has no time for morality.

- Blaise Pascal
c.1654^1662  Pense  es, no.4 (translated byA Krailsheimer).

EŁ  loquence quipersuade par douceur, non par empire, en tyran, non en roi. Eloquence should persuade gently, not by force or like a tyrant or king.

- Blaise Pascal
c.1654^1662  Pense  es, pt.1, no.15.

Prends l'e  loquence et tords-lui son cou! Take eloquence and break its neck!

- Paul Verlaine
  Jadis et nague'  re,'Art poe  tique'.