Quote by Samuel Johnson

“How can a man who, for a significant phase of his formation, shared his master’s opposition to rhetoric have in maturity composed a masterpiece…

— Aristotle

“In fiction, especially in texts that are framed by a storytelling situation, aporia is a favourite device of narrators to arouse curiosity in their…

— David Lodge

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 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

“Why must an aphorism be brief? Because only a fool gives a speech in a burning house.”

— James Geary

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

— Haidji

“If a school of critics were found prepared to pay divine honours to a certain person while doubting whether he was divine, men who…

— G.K. Chesterton

“For Alwyn's grandfather, who was known as "the greatest talker in the country," used words which no one else understood, words which he did…

— Glenway Wescott

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

The aphorism: a platitude that swerves, or slides all the way around.

— Mason Cooley

Do I know what rhetorical means?

— Homer

“It is the simplest phrase you can imagine,” Favreau said, “three monosyllabic words that people say to each other every day.” But the speech…

— Derek Thompson