Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth. — Angela Thirkell Copy Share Image
I want to give the evidence in a way that is convincing, but I don't want to cheat. — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
A God who is trying to convince people that He is a God is not a God! He is just a clown… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I was never a very convincing social conservative, and always avoided associating myself with that part of the broader conservative movement. — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
The most convincing argument against early parenthood is that you are in a relationship that is likely to fall apart before that… — Tony Parsons Copy Share Image
Son, the greatest trick the Devil pulled was convincing the world there was only one of him. — David Wong Copy Share Image
“Illusions can be very convincing. No one has any reason to suspect that I am anything less than what I appear.” — Maggi Myers Copy Share Image
My drawings and paintings were done as an act of protest; I was trying by means of my work to convince the… — George Grosz Copy Share Image
Comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized… — George Meredith Copy Share Image
You know, I had my mother and my father convincing me that he would be going back to Hollywood and he'd be… — Priscilla Presley Copy Share Image
Style consists in maintaining a convincing reality all through a piece. It's like wearing a garment that looks as if it might… — Arlene Croce Copy Share Image
Women are better at acting then men. Why? Because we have to be. If successfully convincing someone bigger than you are of… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
I am far from sure when I am acting and when I am not or, should I more frankly put it, when… — Laurence Olivier Copy Share Image
The quality of the Neues Museum's construction is extraordinary even by German standards, and people can smell that quality. The concept would… — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
In Heaven all reviews will be favorable; here on earth, the publisher realizes, plausibility demands an occasional bad one, some convincing lump… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Apologys for self-evident Truths can never have any effect on those who have so little Sense as to deny them. They are… — Anthony Collins Copy Share Image
D.H. Lawrence, I think, defined the difference between writing an article and writing a novel very well. He said, in writing a… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
The entire hominid collection known today would barely cover a billiard table, ... the collection is so tantalizingly incomplete, and the specimens… — John Reader Copy Share Image
Knock, knock. You have the day to hide. Come nightfall, we hunt. (Desiderius) Yeah, yeah...you and your little dog, too. (Kyrian) You're… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I can remember that on the shelves at home, there were these books by Thomas Wolfe. 'Look Homeward Angel' and 'Of Time… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
There is a period in one's life - perhaps not longer than six months - when one lives in two worlds at… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
I believe that in a certain way this is proof of the truth of Christianity: Heart and reason encounter one another, beauty… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Nothing affects my acting. Acting is something I do with my soul so it embodies a lot of things. For me, I… — Genevieve Nnaji Copy Share Image
The hardest part was convincing people that I was serious. The people were like 'you want to do this again'? — Rob Zombie Copy Share Image
I suppose [...] that the most convincing way to fool an enemy would be to fool a friend. — Anne Bishop Copy Share Image
Whilst our Hearts are violently set upon any thing, there is no convincing us that we shall ever be of another Mind. — Mary Astell Copy Share Image
Theists give several 'proofs' of the existence of God. These are really just arguments, because if there were convincing proof just one… — Marcel Conche Copy Share Image
There’s no better guarantee of failure than convincing yourself that success is impossible, and therefore never even trying. — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
The toughest thing about raising kids is convincing them that you have seniority. — Gene Brown Copy Share Image
I don't think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Never let anyone convince you of anything negative about yourself unless it is for your own betterment.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
It's a powerful instrument, dynamite -- nothing like it for a convincing argument! — Leonid Andreyev Copy Share Image
Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Convincing oneself of ones own happiness… That is when the strongest one has to be… — Sharvari Copy Share Image
I thought if I could create a convincing cat I could say and do anything I wanted on the human condition. — Jim Davis Copy Share Image
“It’s important to know that you're behind, to be able to convince yourself to make sacrifices that get you ahead.” — Shivanee Harshey Copy Share Image
I love convincing a reader that an unusual or seemingly ordinary subject is worth his or her time - it's part of… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe. But now science offers a more convincing explanation. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
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