Rhetoric quotes

To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
(also about
Speech, Ethics, Words)
Why does God endow us with compassion? Franz Schubert
(also about
Humanity, Compassion)
Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue. Sinclair Lewis
(also about
Humour, Selfishness)
To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery. Charles Baudelaire
(also about
Language, Skill)
In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing. Franz Kafka
(also about
Argues, Analogies)
A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet. Truman Capote
(also about
Intelligence, Communication)
We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry. William Butler Yeats
(also about
Poetry)
The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect. Gustave Flaubert
(also about
Words, Thoughts)

Rhetoric quotes by Adolf Hitler

Also about
Propaganda, Image, Power, Society
All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people. The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.