Articulate Expression Quotes

There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.

I know that one is able to win people far more by the spoken that by the written word, and that every great movement on this globe owes its rise to the great speakers and not to the great writers.

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

… a style of oratory that I never heard equaled in this or any other country

The air of the New World seems favorable to the art of declamation.

Good communication does not mean that you have to speak in perfectly formed sentences and paragraphs. It isn't about slickness. Simple and clear go a long way.

I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one would say to the same person by word of mouth.

Everyone knows how to talk, and no one knows what to say.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

He also knows the power of word.

To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.

Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.

Great eloquence we cannot get, except from human genius.

Words were another sword for the man who wielded them well.

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem

There is no eloquence without a man behind it.

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

A culture is made — or destroyed — by its articulate voices.

Here comes the orator with his flood of words and his drop or reason.

Being more vocal - I think that's something, as a professional, you have to be really good at. You have to be able to speak your mind.

The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.

Fine declamation does not consist in flowery periods, delicate allusions of musical cadences, but in a plain, open, loose style, where the periods are long and obvious, where the same thought is often exhibited in several points of view.

Eloquence may set fire to reason.

Of all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory. He who enjoys it wields a power more durable than that of a great king. He is an independent force in the world.

Fluency avoids hard thoughts.