If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation? Thomas Carlyle

23Nov2008 In : Quotes
Author : Frédérick Jézégou

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
Speakers and Speaking
Quotations by Thomas Carlyle

Silence is more eloquent than words.SilenceQuotations by Thomas Carlyle

The eloquent man is he who is no eloquent speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief.EloquenceQuotations by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.AdviceQuotations by Thomas Carlyle

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.DoubtQuotations by Thomas Carlyle

The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.PersuasionQuotations by Thomas B. Macaulay

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