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title: "135 Rhetorical Quotes by 123 authors"
description: "Browse 135 Rhetorical quotes by 123 authors. Discover the best Rhetorical sayings and thoughts."
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> [All language is rhetorical, and even the senses are poets.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-santayana/all-language-is-rhetorical-and-even-the-senses-are-poets/)

[George Santayana](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-santayana/)

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> [“When God asks a question, it is always rhetorical.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ron-brackin/when-god-asks-a-question-it-is-always-rhetorical/)

[Ron Brackin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ron-brackin/)

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> [Do I know what rhetorical means?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/homer/do-i-know-what-rhetorical-means/)

[Homer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/homer/)

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> [Bill Knott's poems are . . . rhetorical fluff . . . and fake.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ron-loewinsohn/bill-knott-s-poems-are-rhetorical-fluff-and-fake/)

[Ron Loewinsohn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ron-loewinsohn/)

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> [When will all the rhetorical questions end?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-carlin/when-will-all-the-rhetorical-questions-end/)

[George Carlin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-carlin/)

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> [All rhetorical questions are accusations.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-mamet/all-rhetorical-questions-are-accusations/)

[David Mamet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-mamet/)

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> [I like to use research to enlarge the poem. And sometimes a rhetorical or syntactical gesture stitches the poem along.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alison-hawthorne-deming/i-like-to-use-research-to-enlarge-the-poem-and-sometimes-a-rhetorical/)

[Alison Hawthorne Deming](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alison-hawthorne-deming/)

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> [African-Americans have rarely been the beneficiaries of Presidential rhetorical excess.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julianne-malveaux/african-americans-have-rarely-been-the-beneficiaries-of-presidential/)

[Julianne Malveaux](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julianne-malveaux/)

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> [President Reagan is a rhetorical roundheels, as befits a politician seeking empathy with his audience.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-safire/president-reagan-is-a-rhetorical-roundheels-as-befits-a-politician/)

[William Safire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-safire/)

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> [“If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the rhetorical question”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josh-stern/if-you-re-not-part-of-the-solution-you-re-part-of-the-rhetorical/)

[Josh Stern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/josh-stern/)

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> [There are occasions when the simplest and fewest words surpass in effect all the wealth of rhetorical amplification.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-henry-lewes/there-are-occasions-when-the-simplest-and-fewest-words-surpass-in/)

[George Henry Lewes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-henry-lewes/)

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> [I think of a monument as being symbolic and for the people and therefore rhetorical, not honest, not personal.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/claes-oldenburg/i-think-of-a-monument-as-being-symbolic-and-for-the-people-and/)

[Claes Oldenburg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/claes-oldenburg/)

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> [Hypotyposis is the rhetorical effect by which words succeed in rendering a visual scene.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-eco/hypotyposis-is-the-rhetorical-effect-by-which-words-succeed-in/)

[Umberto Eco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/umberto-eco/)

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> [If you didn't earn your salvation how are you going to un-earn it?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-keller/if-you-didn-t-earn-your-salvation-how-are-you-going-to-un-earn-it/)

[Timothy Keller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-keller/)

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> [“We all romp about, grieving, wondering, but with rare exception we mostly remain suspended in the Rhetorical Colloidal Forever that agglutinates between…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-kushner/we-all-romp-about-grieving-wondering-but-with-rare-exception-we/)

[Tony Kushner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-kushner/)

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> [“Engaging the arguments of those who hold differing opinions is always a worthy use of one’s time. It’s how we strengthen our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alyssa-cole/engaging-the-arguments-of-those-who-hold-differing-opinions-is-always/)

[Alyssa Cole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alyssa-cole/)

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> [The niftiest turn of phrase, the most elegant flight of rhetorical fancy, isn't worth beans next to a clear thought clearly expressed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeff-greenfield/the-niftiest-turn-of-phrase-the-most-elegant-flight-of-rhetorical/)

[Jeff Greenfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeff-greenfield/)

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> [When you see all that rhetorical smoke billowing up from the Democrats, well ladies and gentleman, I'd follow the example of their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-reagan/when-you-see-all-that-rhetorical-smoke-billowing-up-from-the/)

[Ronald Reagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ronald-reagan/)

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> [There's a love of rhetorical skill in the Muslim world. Osama bin Laden doesn't just go on tape cassettes and say, 'America…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/p-j-o-rourke/there-s-a-love-of-rhetorical-skill-in-the-muslim-world-osama-bin/)

[P. J. O'Rourke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/p-j-o-rourke/)

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> [“... a rhetorical question. It has a question mark at the end, but you are not meant to answer it because the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-haddon/a-rhetorical-question-it-has-a-question-mark-at-the-end-but-you-are/)

[Mark Haddon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-haddon/)

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> [It seems to me we have been in a rhetorical arms race in this country, with each side unwilling to lay down…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pat-sajak/it-seems-to-me-we-have-been-in-a-rhetorical-arms-race-in-this-country/)

[Pat Sajak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pat-sajak/)

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> [Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/p-j-o-rourke/abstract-anger-is-great-for-rhetorical-carrying-on-you-can-go-on/)

[P. J. O'Rourke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/p-j-o-rourke/)

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> [It became quite clear to me that the Natural Law mystique, in Catholic, libertarian or neo-pagan forms, remains basically a set of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-anton-wilson/it-became-quite-clear-to-me-that-the-natural-law-mystique-in-catholic/)

[Robert Anton Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-anton-wilson/)

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> [I note that warmists are often banging on about the fact that sceptics like Christopher Booker and myself 'only' have arts degrees.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-delingpole/i-note-that-warmists-are-often-banging-on-about-the-fact-that/)

[James Delingpole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-delingpole/)

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> [A man or a race either if he's any good can survive his past without even needing to escape from it and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-faulkner/a-man-or-a-race-either-if-he-s-any-good-can-survive-his-past-without/)

[William Faulkner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-faulkner/)

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> [A common rhetorical strategy of politicians and others is to frame their opponents' views in the worst possible light, tacitly suggesting that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dale-jamieson/a-common-rhetorical-strategy-of-politicians-and-others-is-to-frame/)

[Dale Jamieson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dale-jamieson/)

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> [What a wretched thing is all fame! A renown of the highest sort endures, say, for two thousand years. And then? Why,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-carlyle/what-a-wretched-thing-is-all-fame-a-renown-of-the-highest-sort/)

[Thomas Carlyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-carlyle/)

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> [French rhetorical models are too narrow for the English tradition. Most pernicious of French imports is the notion that there is no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/camille-paglia/french-rhetorical-models-are-too-narrow-for-the-english-tradition/)

[Camille Paglia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/camille-paglia/)

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> [Whoop-de-do," said Ram. "What?" "I'm celebrating." "Was that irony or loss of mental function?" asked the expendable. "Was that a rhetorical questions,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/orson-scott-card/whoop-de-do-said-ram-what-i-m-celebrating-was-that-irony-or-loss-of/)

[Orson Scott Card](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/orson-scott-card/)

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> [The only tactic liberals have is to try to intimidate people into thinking that the Tea Party is racist. The Tea Party…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-cain/the-only-tactic-liberals-have-is-to-try-to-intimidate-people-into/)

[Herman Cain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-cain/)

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> [For the academic the rhetorical sense of superiority through the possession of knowledge is essential for facing the daily grind, turning again…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-winks/for-the-academic-the-rhetorical-sense-of-superiority-through-the/)

[Robin Winks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-winks/)

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> [Taking ideas seriously does not fit with the rhetorical style of textbooks, which presents events so as to make them seem foreordained…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-w-loewen/taking-ideas-seriously-does-not-fit-with-the-rhetorical-style-of/)

[James W. Loewen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-w-loewen/)

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> [The biggest issue for me is whether large numbers of Americans can begin to think that government can actually help make the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-packer/the-biggest-issue-for-me-is-whether-large-numbers-of-americans-can/)

[George Packer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-packer/)

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> [ I'd finished the first two \[books\] and they were going to to be published, and \[editor\] said, "We need you to write… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-handler/i-d-finished-the-first-two-books-and-they-were-going-to-to-be/)

[Daniel Handler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-handler/)

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> [Both India and Pakistan have a long history of deploying rhetorical strategies to skirt the issue of plebiscite or complete secession of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nyla-ali-khan/both-india-and-pakistan-have-a-long-history-of-deploying-rhetorical/)

[Nyla Ali Khan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nyla-ali-khan/)

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> [Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/truth-is-a-mobile-army-of-metaphors-metonyms-anthropomorphisms-in-2/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

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> [I think that when you reveal things that are going to cause pain, you have rhetorical resources in poetry.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vijay-seshadri/i-think-that-when-you-reveal-things-that-are-going-to-cause-pain-you/)

[Vijay Seshadri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vijay-seshadri/)

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> [How can I set free anyone who doesn't have the guts to stand up alone and declare his own freedom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/how-can-i-set-free-anyone-who-doesn-t-have-the-guts-to-stand-up-alone-2/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“rhetorical appeal to make the local research university the next—and you can fill in the”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brad-feld/rhetorical-appeal-to-make-the-local-research-university-the-next-and/)

[Brad Feld](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brad-feld/)

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> [“That was a rhetorical question, one asked solely to produce an effect and not elicit a reply.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-hoffman/that-was-a-rhetorical-question-one-asked-solely-to-produce-an-effect/)

[Paul Hoffman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-hoffman/)

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                        "text": "Whoop-de-do,\" said Ram. \"What?\" \"I'm celebrating.\" \"Was that irony or loss of mental function?\" asked the expendable. \"Was that a rhetorical questions, a bit of humor, or a sign that you are losing confidence in me?\" \"I have no confidence in you, Ram,\" said the expendable. \"Well, thanks.\" \"You're welcome.",
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