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“Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.”
― Chinua Achebe (Author)

“It was one of those early spring days where the winter had fought its way back in a relentless pursuit to stay in the limelight, even though it knew its days were numbered.”
― Jasun Ether, The Beasts of Success

“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, City of Bones

“To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.”
― Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus / Traeg

“Surely silence can sometimes be the most eloquent reply.”
― Ali Ibn Abi Talib AS

“Joel Cairo: You always have a very smooth explanation ready.
Sam Spade: What do you want me to do, learn to stutter?”
― Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon

“Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Culture, Behavior, Beauty, Books, Art, Eloquence, Power, Wealth, Illusions

“You're a fine fastidious young man, as proud as a lion, as gentle as a girl. You'd make a good catch for the devil.”
― Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot

“You must speak straight so that your words may go as sunlight into our hearts.”
― Cochise ("Like Ironweed")

“poets. have
the toughest job
in the universe-

of turning silence
into eloquence.”
― Sanober Khan

“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, The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex / Oedipus at Colonus / Antigone

“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 (Blackbird)

“Everybody knows that it makes no sense that you send a kid to the emergency room for a treatable illness like asthma. They end up taking up a hospital bed. It costs when, if you, they just gave, you gave, treatment early, and they got some treatment, and uhhh a breathalyzer, or uhh, an inhalator, not a breathalyzer...”
― Barack Obama, Barack Obama in His Own Words

“Nam eloquentiam quae admirationem non habet nullam iudico”
― Marcus Tulius Cicero

“A man is reputed to have thought and eloquence; he cannot, for all that, say a word to his cousin or his uncle. They accuse his silence with as much reason as they would blame the insignificance of a dial in the shade. In the sun it will mark the hour. Among those who enjoy his thought, he will regain his tongue.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance and Other Essays

“Speaking can persuade an individual, eloquence can persuade a crowd.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“If you think before you speak you will speak well, if you think twice you will speak very well.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of a portrait.”
― Blaise Pascal

“Fine style does not make something true, nor has a man a wise soul because he has a handsome face and well-chosen eloquence.”
― St. Augustine, The Confessions of Saint Augustine by St. Augustine

“Not only are the Irish some of the prettiest and most eloquent people alive, but they also know how to have fun better than pretty much anyone on the planet.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“Eloquence. There must be elements both pleasing and real, but what is pleasing must itself be drawn from what is true.”
― Blaise Pascal, ±Ê±ð²Ô²õé±ð²õ

“Eloquence.—It requires the pleasant and the real; but the pleasant must itself be drawn from the true.”
― Blaise Pascal, ±Ê±ð²Ô²õé±ð²õ

“We all feel eloquence we can’t put into words.”
― Caroline George, The Summer We Forgot

“Silence is the eloquence of the wise.”
― Augusto Branco

“Earlier this morning,' Bukka told him, 'I entertained our great and wise sage, Vidyasagar, the Ocean of Knowledge, and I suggested to him that his masterwork-in-progress, his inquiry into the Sixteen Systems of Philosophy, was reportedly of a brilliance so extraordinary that it would be a tragedy if it ended up incomplete, unfinished, because of the distractions of his work at court. I also took the liberty to mention that astrology was not my personal cup of tea, so that the daily morning horoscope readings demanded by my brother would no longer be required. I must say that on the whole he took it very well. He is a man of infinite grace, and when he let out a single wordless ejaculation—a 'ha!' so loud that it frightened the horses in the stables—I understood this to be part of his transcendent spiritual practice, a controlled exhalation from his body in which he expelled all that was now redundant. A letting-go. After that he took his leave and I believe he has retreated into his original cave of so long ago, near the perimeter of the Mandana complex, to begin a ninety-one-day program of meditation and soul renewal. I know that we will all be grateful for the fruits of this disciplined activity and for the rebirth of his spirit in an even more bountiful incarnation. He is the greatest of us all.'

'You fired him,' Haleya Kote dared to summarize.”
― Salman Rushdie, Victory City

“There are men who always confound the praise of goodness with the practice, and who believe themselves mild and moderate, charitable and faithful, because they have exerted their eloquence in commendation of mildness, fidelity, and other virtues.”
― Samuel Johnson, The Rambler

“Poetry is the soul's eloquence.”
― Monika Ajay Kaul

“Writing was what saved the stutterer. It saved him the trouble of speaking.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia

“Appena parla di imposte sul capitale, dal centro lo interrompono: «Sul suo capitale!». Al suo primo discorso alla Camera, dopo poco più di trecento parole pronunciate, gli viene ripresentata la colpa della sua ricchezza. «Naturalmente anche sul mio» risponde lesto e beffardo «avete impegnato tanto tempo a capirlo?».”
― Antonio Funiciello, Tempesta: La vita (e non la morte) di Giacomo Matteotti

“The manner in which you speak to others is only a reflection of how you see yourself! Therefore, speak life through eloquence!”
― Constance Delores Burrell