282 Quotes About Rhetoric

Since Shakespeare had a feel for revolutionary rhetoric, let’s all cry: “Peace, freedom and liberty!

(Emerson's) aphorisms tend to be chicken soup for the academic soul or gobledygook of a man who prefers the sounds of words to their meanings.

Quamquam scripsit artem rhetorieam Cleanthes, Chrysippus etiam, sed sic, ut si quis obmutescere concupierit, nihil aliud legere debeat.

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

Just as the soul animates the body, so, in a way, meaning breathes life into a word.

In writing are the roots, in writing are the foundations of eloquence; by writing resources are stored up, as it were, in a sacred repository, when they may be drawn forth for sudden emergencies, or as circumstances require.

Whether it's trying to convince others that something is more true, more virtuous, or more desirable--all communication is rhetoric in action.

Words are things. The words he is in possession of he cannot be deprived of. Their authority transcends his ignorance of their meaning.

TOBY: The world can move or not by changing some words.