"Profane eloquence is transfered from the bar, where Le Maître, Pucelle, and Fourcroy formerly practised it, and where it has become obsolete, to the Pulpit, where it is out of place."

"When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent."

"L'éloquence est au sublime ce que le tout est à sa partie."

"as that dishonest victory At Chæronea, fatal to liberty, Killed with report that old man eloquent, [Isocrates, the celebrated orator of Greece.]"

"Eloquence may be found in conversations and in all kinds of writings; it is rarely found when looked for, and sometimes discovered where it is least expected."

"Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one."

"He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence."

"To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy."

"Is enim est eloquens qui et humilia subtiliter, et magna graviter, et mediocria temperate potest dicere."

"But to a higher mark than song can reach, Rose this pure eloquence."

"Denial of one's better self seals the lips or pollutes them. Fidelity to conviction opens them and truth blossoms in eloquence. ... He who aspires to master the art of expression must first of all consecrate himself completely to some great cause."

"Il embellit tout qu'il touche."

"The distrust which peasants and children display for glib persons has always preserved the notion of that injustice which made language the servant of gain."

"Action is eloquence."

"The most eloquent voice of our century uttered, shortly before leaving the world, a warning cry against the "Anglo-Saxon contagion.""

"Say she be mute and will not speak a word; Then I'll commend her volubility, And say she uttereth piercing eloquence."

"Discourse may want an animated "No" To brush the surface, and to make it flow; But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease."

"But while listening Senates hang upon thy tongue, Devolving through the maze of eloquence A roll of periods, sweeter than her song."

"A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick."

"Does the painter imitate the body correctly if he guides his brush without any method, and if his hand is moved at random and the lines are not drawn with art? In the same way you will not put the sentiment of your mind in front of the others’ eyes unless you use appropriate and distinct words, a fitting arrangement of words and the right order of sentences. For, just as we represent bodies by colours, we represent the sentiment of our mind by speech."

"You can see for what reason I commend the study of eloquence to you—because we can neither explain what we ourselves want, nor understand the surviving writing written by our ancestors, unless we have thoroughly studied a fixed rule for speaking. For my part, I do not see how there could be others who wish neither to explain what they think, nor to understand what is excellently said."

"The shadow does not follow the body more closely than eloquence accompanies sagacity."

"What do you believe was on the mind ancient Romans that they called the arts of speaking humanity? They judged that, indisputably, by the study of these disciplines not only was the tongue refined, but also the wildness and barbarity of people’s minds was amended."

"A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain."

"That aged ears play truant at his tales And younger hearings are quite ravished; So sweet and voluble is his discourse."

"Every tongue that speaks But Romeo's name speaks heavenly eloquence."

"With an auspicious and a dropping eye, With mirth in funeral, and with dirge in marriage, In equal scale weighing delight and dole."

"They fool me to the top of my bent. I will come by and by."

"You will destroy those who speak lies. Jehovah detests violent and deceptive people."

"Mankind are not held together by lies. Trust is the foundation of society. Where there is no truth, there can be no trust, and where there is no trust, there can be no society. Where there is society, there is trust, and where there is trust, there is something upon which it is supported."

"O, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive!"

"But when the fox hath once got in his nose, He'll soon find means to make the body follow."

"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil."

"Engin mieulx vault que force."

"A quicksand of deceit."

"You know where you are with a complete liar, but when a chap mixes some truth with his yarns, you can't trust a word he says."

"When we risk no contradiction, It prompts the tongue to deal in fiction."

"Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth."

"Do not lie to one another. Strip off the old personality with its practices."

"The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies."

"You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is based upon lies or ignorance can't lead to a good conclusion."

"Fraud and prevarication are servile vices. They sometimes grow out of the necessities, always out of the habits, of slavish and degenerate spirits…. It is an erect countenance, it is a firm adherence to principle, it is a power of resisting false shame and frivolous fear, that assert our good faith and honor, and assure to us the confidence of mankind."

"Therefore, now that you have put away deceit, each one of you speak truth with his neighbor, because we are members belonging to one another."

"So rid yourselves of all badness and deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all backbiting."

"Don't lie, but don't tell the whole truth."

"In the majority of cases which are brought to me as a consulting psychologist for love and marital adjustment, there are self-deceptions to be uncovered as well as attempts to deceive other people. Beneath such love conflicts there is almost always a festering psychological core of dishonesty."