282 Quotes About Rhetoric

J.R.R. Tolkien, said a student, "could turn a lecture room into a mead hall in which he was the bard and we were the feasting, listening guests.

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

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

I command, or I keep quiet." Napoleon

While he loved liberty, he detested the crimes that had been committed in its name. Jon J. Ingalls

Facts seemed to run around and rattle in his head like dried peas, and then suddenly to form a convincing pattern.

Language construction will BREED a mythology. J.R.R. Tolkien

The author's alliterative description of politics since the 1960 presidential debates: "Government by Gotcha".

John F. Kennedy responded, as he often did when at his best, skillfully mixing dollops of wit with, self-deprecation, and the principle of not-really-going-near-the-question.