7 Quotes by Rex Warner

It was a day when I was preparing a speech to be delivered in praise of the Emporor; there would be a lot of lies in the speech and they would be applauded by those who knew that they were lies."The Confessions of St. Augustine

The arguments themselves did not appear to me to be any better simply because they were better expressed; eloquence did not make them true."St. Augustine page 85

If we are to believe in gods at all, we must believe them to be wiser and better than men.

Excellence is always a matter of effort, and no one is capable of more than a certain amount of effort.

It is undoubtedly rare for a man not to soon grow tired of a woman, but it is impossible to maintain that everything rare is undesirable.

Such is the ability of man to believe in what at any time he finds it convenient to believe, they may actually have convinced themselves that they were speaking the truth.

Because an argument is used hypocritically, it does not necessarily follow that it is untrue.