QUOTES ABOUT ELOQUENCE
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"Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech."

[Martin Fraquhar Tupper] | [1.12]


"No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For truth denies all eloquence to woe."

[Lord Byron] | [1.12] | from The Corsair


"The truest eloquence is that which holds us too mute for applause."

[Edward Bulwer-Lytton] | [1.12]


"Talking and eloquence are not the same. To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks."

[Ben Jonson] | [1.12]


"He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument."

[Shakespeare] | [1.12] | Love’s Labor’s Lost, V.i.6