Accusation Quote by Philip Massinger

“Sometime rhetoric was just another way to lie and impress persons, and he knew this”

— Haidji

The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried…

— Thomas Carlyle

There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones.

— William Penn

Rhetoric is cheap, evidence comes more dearly.

— John Fund

“APOPHASIS  (APO'PHASIS)   n.s.[Lat.    a denying.] A figure in rhetorick, by which the orator, speaking ironically, seems to wave what he would plainly insinuate; as,…

— Samuel Johnson

There wasn't any more truth in over half of what any so-called orator said. If it wasn't a Deliberate Lie, why it was an…

— Will Rogers

Rhetoric is nothing but reason well dressed and argument put in order.

— Jeremy Collier

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

— Alexander Pope

Rhetoric is the counterpart of logic; since both are conversant with subjects of such a nature as it is the business of all to…

— Aristotle

Rhetoric in serious discourses is like the flowers in corn; pleasing to those who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would…

— Jonathan Swift

“The truth offends foolish people because they are always too busy deceiving themselves. They think insults, slander, and vulgarity are intelligence, and believe rudeness,…

— De philosopher DJ Kyos