Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old rhetoric quotes, rhetoric sayings, and rhetoric proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.Plato
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Rhetoric is nothing but reason well dressed and argument put in order.Jeremy Collier
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The two best rules for a system of rhetoric are: first, have something to say; and next, say it.George Emmons
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Rhetoric never won a revolution yet.Shirley Chisholm
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Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.Christopher Lasch
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Political rhetoric leads only to confusion.Tariq Ramadan
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Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.Theodore Roosevelt
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It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The rhetoric is the key to the character. It's the verbal music of the piece.Peter Shaffer
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Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.Thomas Sowell
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There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones.William Penn
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Wherever there is persuasion, there is rhetoric, and wherever there is rhetoric, there is meaning.Kenneth Burke
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Rhetoric in serious discourses is like the flowers in corn; pleasing to those who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap profit from it.Jonathan Swift
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One of the strongest forms of rhetoric in our society is the rhetoric of blame.Kenneth Frazier
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Rhetoric paints with a broad brush.George Carlin
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The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument, or follow a long chain of reasoning.Aristotle
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Rhetoric is the counterpart of Dialectic. Both alike are concerned with such things as come, more or less, within the general ken of all men and belong to no definite science.Aristotle
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Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.Aristotle
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Rhetoric falls into three divisions, determined by the three classes of listeners to speeches. For of the three elements in speech-making--speaker, subject, and person addressed it is the last one, the hearer, that determines the speech’s end and object.Aristotle
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The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.Aristotle
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Rhetoric is useful because truth and justice are in their nature stronger than their opposites; so that if decisions be made, not in conformity to the rule of propriety, it must have been that they have been got the better of through fault of the advocates themselves: and this is deserving reprehension.Aristotle
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Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in.Charles Caleb Colton
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Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of wordsChristian Nestell Bovee
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To devote yourself to the creation and enjoyment of beauty, then, can be a serious business-not always necessarily a means of escaping reality, but sometimes a means of holding on to the real when everything is flaking away into rhetoric and plot.Elizabeth Gilbert
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Action can give us the feeling of being useful, but only words can give us a sense of weight and purpose.Eric Hoffer
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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.Friedrich Schiller
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We must continue to step in and stand up to resist reckless rhetoric and actions in a peaceful and forceful manner.Gavin Newsom
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Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.J. Paul Getty
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We had a sense of importance that would have led us to risk our lives for our rhetoric.Jerry Rubin
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Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life. Joseph Wood Krutch