Quotes about Rhetoric

There is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats—and one always secretes too much jelly.

Words are as strong and powerful as bombs, as napalm.

One hidden act of kindness is worth more than all the burial mounds of rhetoric, all the mumbling and fumbling and tardiness of Christians so preoccupied with cultivating their prayer lives that they cannot hear the anguished cry of the child in the barrio.

The word liberty in the mouth of Mr. Webster sounds like the word love in the mouth of a courtesan.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy.

Arguments out of a petty mouth are unanswerable.

Be a politician; no training necessary.

But all was false and hollow; through his tongue dropp'd manna, and could make the worse appear the better reason.

The aim of forensic oratory is to teach, to delight, to move.