Give me the eloquent cheek,
When blushes burn and die,
Like thine its changes speak,
The spirit's purity. [ Mrs. Osgood ]

The countenance
Is more eloquent than the tongue. [ Lavater ]

Silence is more eloquent than words. [ Carlyle ]

O! as a bee upon the flower, I hang
Upon the honey of thy eloquent tongue. [ Bulwer ]

Every one was eloquent in his own cause. [ Ovid ]

Whom have not flowing cups made eloquent? [ Horace ]

In an easy matter any man may be eloquent. [ Ovid ]

Nothing is more eloquent than ready money. [ French Proverb ]

We understood
Her by her sight; her pure and eloquent blood
Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought.
That one might almost say her body thought. [ Donne ]

Give me the eloquent cheek, where blushes burn and die. [ Mrs. Osgood ]

There's a charm in delivery, a magical art,
That thrills like a kiss from the lip to the heart;
It is the glance - the expression - the well-chosen word -
By whose magic the depths of the spirit are stirred.
The lip's soft persuasion - its musical tone:
Oh! such were the charms of that eloquent one! [ Mrs. Welby ]

Persuasive, yet denying eyes, all eloquent with language of their own. [ Locke ]

Tully was not so eloquent as thou, thou nameless column with the buried base. [ Byron ]

Men are more eloquent than women made; but women are more powerful to persuade. [ Thomas Randolph ]

It is easy to defend the innocent; but who is eloquent enough to defend the guilty? [ Publius Syrus ]

Sweet tears! the awful language eloquent of infinite affection, far too big for words. [ Pollok ]

Were we as eloquent as angels, we should please some more by listening than by talking. [ Colton ]

Stupid people move like lay-figures, while every joint of an intelligent man is eloquent. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]

The rudest man, inspired by passion, is more persuasive than the most eloquent man, if uninspired. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

The eloquent man is he who is no eloquent speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief. [ Emerson ]

To acquire a few tongues is the labor of a few years; but to be eloquent in one is the labor of life. [ Anonymous ]

The eloquent blood spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, you might have almost said her body thought. [ Donne ]

There is an eloquent silence which serves to approve or to condemn: there is a silence of discretion and of respect. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

There are men whose tongues are more eloquent than those of women, but no man possesses the eloquence of a woman's eye. [ C. Weber ]

Beneath her drooping lashes slept a world of eloquent meaning; passionate but pure, dreamy, subdued, but, oh, how beautiful! [ Mrs. Osgood ]

Were we as eloquent as angels, we would please some men, some women, and some children much more by listening than by talking. [ Colton ]

He is an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy, lofty things impressively, and moderate things temperately. [ Cicero ]

He is an eloquent man who can speak of low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper. [ Cicero ]

The scholar only knows how dear these silent yet eloquent companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours become in the season of adversity. [ Washington Irving ]

There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element. [ Hare ]

No man ever did or ever will become truly eloquent without being a constant reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language. [ Fisher Ames ]

Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker if it is not the truth that he is speaking? If an eloquent speaker is not speaking the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation? [ Carlyle ]

A cold-blooded learned man might, for anything I know, compose in his closet an eloquent book; but in public discourse, arising out of sudden occasions, he could by no possibility be eloquent. [ Erskine ]

The passions are the only orators that always persuade; they are, as it were, a natural art, the rules of which are infallible; and the simplest man with passion is more persuasive than the most eloquent without it. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

If wealth come, beware of him, the smooth, false friend! There is treachery in his proffered hand; his tongue is eloquent to tempt; lust of many harms is lurking in his eye; he hath a hollow heart; use him cautiously. [ Tupper ]

I have often heard it said, and I believe it to be true, that even the most eloquent man living, and however deeply impressed with the subject, could scarcely find utterance if he were to be standing up alone, and speaking only against a dead wall. [ Erskine ]

His eloquent tongue so well seconds his fertile invention that no one speaks better when suddenly called forth. His attention never languishes; his mind is always before his words; his memory has all its stock so turned into ready money that, without hesitation or delay, it supplies whatever the occasion may require. [ Erasmus ]

Whatever of goodness emanates from the soul, gathers its soft halo in the eyes; and if the heart be a lurking place of crime, the eyes are sure to betray the secret. A beautiful eye makes silence eloquent, a kind eye makes contradiction assent, an enraged eye makes beauty a deformity; so you see, forsooth, the little organ plays no inconsiderable, if not a dominant, part. [ Frederick Saunders ]

A beautiful eye makes silence eloquent, a kind eye makes contradiction an assent, an enraged eye makes beauty deformed. This little member gives life to every other part about us; and I believe the story of Argus implies no more than that the eye is in every part; that is to say, every other part would be mutilated were not its force represented more by the eye than even by itself. [ Joseph Addison ]

The province of music is rather to express the passions and feelings of the human heart than the actions of men, or the operations of nature. When employed in the former capacity, it becomes an eloquent language; when in the latter, a mere mimic - an imitator, and a very miserable one - or rather a buffoon, caricaturing what it cannot imitate; the idea of the different stages of a battle, or the progress of a tempest being represented to the eye or the ear, or even the imagination, by the quavering of a fiddler's elbow, or the squeaking of catgut, is preposterous. [ G. P. Morris ]

The Christian cemetery is a memorial and a record. It is not a mere field in which the dead are stowed away unknown; it is a touching and beautiful history, written in family burial plots, in mounded graves, in sculptured and inscribed monuments. It tells the story of the past, - not of its institutions, or its wars, or its ideas, but of its individual lives, - of its men and women and children, and of its household. It is silent, but eloquent; it is common, but it is unique. We find no such history elsewhere; there are no records in all the wide world in which we can discover so much that is suggestive, so much that is pathetic and impressive. [ Joseph Anderson ]