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Quotes About Argument

O know, sweet love, I always write of you, And you and love are still my argument, So all my best is dressing old words new, Spending again what is already spent: For as the sun is daily new and old, So is my love still telling what is told.
~ William Shakespeare
What's the matter, you dissentious rogues, That rubbing the poor itch of your opinion Make yourselves scabs?
~ William Shakespeare
But now my gracious numbers are decay'd, And my sick muse doth give another place. I grant, sweet love, thy lovely argument Deserves the travail of a worthier pen;
~ William Shakespeare
Il migliore argomento contro la democrazia è una conversazione di cinque minuti con l'elettore medio.
~ Winston Churchill
No, you never do start arguments, do you, with your cold looks an' your bitter tongue! You just freeze everyone up an'—an' despise everything that isn't up to your standard. It's—it's unfair and horrible! Perhaps that's what you want me always to feel. Perhaps you're sorry you ever bothered to marry me!
~ Winston Graham
But moral argument is the most potent force in the world, Captain. It was that more than force of arms that defeated us in America.
~ Winston Graham
While the Hindu elaborates his argument, the Moslem sharpens his sword. Between these two races and creeds…the gulf is impassable.
~ Winston S. Churchill
There is an age-long argument about ships versus forts. Nelson said that a six-gun battery could fight a 100-gun ship-of-the-line. Mr. Balfour, in the Dardanelles inquiry, said in 1916: "If the ship has guns which can hit the fort at ranges where the fort cannot reply, the duel is not necessarily so unequal.
~ Winston S. Churchill
Hitler has told us that it was a crime in such circumstances on our part to go to the aid of the Greeks. I do not wish to enter into argument with experts.
~ Winston S. Churchill
That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.
~ Christopher Hitchens
What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.
~ Christopher Hitchens
In early-twenty-first-century America, when political debate is often confined to shouting on cable television or posting on Twitter, it's even more valuable to revisit an era when arguments over politics and culture were palpable, urged, even revolutionary.
~ Unknown
will collapse and temperatures will rise—and then the waters will. Global agricultural production will level off and then fall. What food remains will be local and not enough. And all these things will come to pass while people continue to argue about them. Until there is no more argument, because there is no more doubt.
~ Unknown
There is no reasoning someone out of a position he has not reasoned himself into.
~ Clive James
But not one sensible argument as to why unarmed women and children and old people posed a threat to the nation.
~ Unknown
quarrel with Yeremi at the time, still Chigirin
~ Henryk Sienkiewicz
An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.
~ Herbert Spencer
Those who cavalierly reject the Theory of Evolution, as not adequately supported by facts, seem quite to forget that their own theory is supported by no facts at all.
~ Herbert Spencer
peroration. He had left his opponents with nothing to say and nowhere to
~ Hilary Mantel
That is how it will be—not pain itself, but the constant apprehension of pain; the constant apprehension of fault, the knowledge that you are going to be punished for something you couldn't help and didn't even know was wrong; and the discord in Hell will be constant, repeating for ever and ever, a violent argument being carried on in the next room.
~ Hilary Mantel
Madoc described fighting as a lot of things, as a game of strategy played at speed, as a dance, but right now it feels like a argument. Like an argument where she's keeping me too busy defending myself to score any points.
~ Holly Black
I fall asleep in the back of the debate team meeting. I wake up in the middle of a debate about whether or not to wake me.
~ Holly Black
Ooh, sacrilege!' Amy had said, because her role as the oldest child was to narrate every family argument and use big words the other kids didn't understand, while Brooke, still little and adorable, had burst into inevitable tears, and Logan's face became blank and moronic.
~ Liane Moriarty
He sounded so certain. Whenever they had an argument about a point of fact, he was always so utterly confident that he had it right and she had it wrong. He never even entertained the possibility that he might be mistaken. It drove her bananas. She struggled with an irresistible urge to slap him across the face.
~ Liane Moriarty