#eloquence

Eloquence is the poetry of prose. ↗

— William C. Bryant

#poetry #prose

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

— Marshall McLuhan

#agencies #classics #classroom #eloquence #models

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#charm #eloquence #great

It was an argument of rare power and eloquence. ↗

— William Henry Moody

#eloquence #power #rare

Why are you here?" "'Here' as in your bedroom, or 'here' as in the great, spiritual question of our purpose here on this planet? If you're asking me whether this is all some cosmic coincidence or if there's a greater meta-ethical purpose to life, well, that's a puzzler for the ages. I mean, modern-day reductionism is clearly a fallacious argument, but-," -"I'm going back to bed." -"I'm here because Hodge reminded me it's your birthday. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#humor #jace-and-clary #age

Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#anderbo-com #art #beauty #behavior #books

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

Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#appear #appears #art #color #eloquence

In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary. ↗

— Robert Fitzgerald

#eloquence #english #fact #in fact #inevitably