282 Quotes About Rhetoric

If she says goodbye, someone else will say hi.

The wrong man is not always wrong because of his wrong actions, often he is wrong because of no actions.

It is this simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences—makes them, as the poets tell us, 'charm the crowd's ears more finely.' Educated men lay down broad general principles; uneducated men argue from common knowledge and draw obvious conclusions.

An invention is a responsibility of the individual, society cannot invent, it can only applaud the invention and inventor.

Rhetoric abounds in the cemeteries of reason.

Education makes your maths better, not necessarily your manners.

It is amusing to note that when Huxley was charged with being rhetorical, he expressed his horror of "plastering the fair face of truth with that pestilent cosmetic, rhetoric," which is itself about as well-plastered a piece of rhetoric as Ruskin himself could have managed.

But one does have to give words some credit. One has to at least pretend that they more or less resemble their meaning. Their shady meaning.

I have been given so much in life merely for knowing how to ask for it.