Rhetoric Quotes

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, gra...

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, gra...

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, gra...

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, gra...

He uses the nice old words so rich in tradition to be sure I know he means it.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

[It is not] the poet's business to use verse as an advanced form of rhetoric, nor to give to politic...

A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up the...

There is hardly a better way to avoid discussion than by releasing an argument from the control of t...

Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, "tuned the English tongue.

He was a man with a chest, and he wanted to give thoughtful expression to the passion of his heart.

When (an advocate) is not thoroughly acquainted with the real strength and weakness of his cause, he...

Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But i...

Metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with.

Today's misery is real unemployment, home foreclosures and bankruptcies. This is the Obama Misery In...

Tell someone to do something, and you change their life–for a day; tell someone a story and you chan...

Language has an ideological agenda that is apt to be hidden from view.

It is useful to remember that no matter where we turn, there is rarely any shortage of elevated idea...

The rhetoric is the key to the character. It's the verbal music of the piece.

Can I by justice or by crooked ways of deceit ascend a loftier tower which may he a fortress to me a...

the matter is as it is in all other cases: if it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable ...

You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man b...

As a result of his experiments he concluded that imitation was a real evil that had to be broken bef...

He singled out aspects of Quality such as unity, vividness, authority, economy, sensitivity, clarity...

I discovered that night (in his college's student politics) that an audience has a feel to it, and, ...

Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of...

In spite of his Cold War credentials, Kennedy still believed in the power of words.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to ...

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea firs...

From her character in the HBO miniseries: "The art of politics is the art of applying the seat of th...

At the beginning of a pestilence and when it ends, there's always a propensity for rhetoric. In the ...

Republicans know well that a change of rhetorical pace is necessary. But efforts by their leaders to...

How Horrid" has a slightly facetious tone that strikes me as Wildean. It appears to embrace the actu...

We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be ...

Rhetoric is what shapes history, if not truth.

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuas...

It is this simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing pop...

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he w...

He wouldn't hear of anybody's paying taxes, though he was very patriotic.

whoever approaches his goal dances

Words are things. The words he is in possession of he cannot be deprived of. Their authority transce...