Quotes About Persuasion

We must win rulers; political, economic, scientific, artistic personalities. They are the engineers of souls. They mold the souls of men. Winning them, you win the people they lead and influence.

The Ability to influence people without irritating them is the most profitable art known to man.

Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves and their auditors.

Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue

Surely: the adverb of a man without an argument.

If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.

The Spirit never makes men the instruments of converting others until they feel that they cannot do it themselves; that their skill in argument, in persuasion, in management, avails nothing.

To sell something, tell a woman it's a bargain; tell a man it's deductible.

The simplest man with passion will be more persuasive than the most eloquent without.

The man who can speak acceptably is usually given credit for an ability out of all proportion to what he really possesses.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.

We're flimflam artists. But remember, sonny, you can't con people unless they're greedy to begin with. W. C. Fields had it right. You can't cheat an honest man.

A man who cannot seduce men cannot save them either.

Women can resist a man's love, a man's fame, a man's personal appearance, and a man's money, but they cannot resist a man's tongue when he knows how to talk to them.

Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.

Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion

A man may well bring a horse to water but he cannot make him drink.

Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason

Men, unlike mockingbirds, have the capacity for systematic self-delusion. We echo each other with equal precision, equal eloquence, equal assurance.

The public spirit is in the hands of the man who knows how to make use of it.

A bachelor has to have an inspiration for making love to a woman--a married man needs only an excuse.

Mountains of gold would not seduce some men, yet flattery would break them down.

Sure men were born to lie, and women to believe them!