Quotes About Persuasion

Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.

Eloquence is in the assembly, not merely in the speaker.

It was like pulling the strings on a marionette. Huber and Puto found they could make the students want one beer or the other, just by adding a third choice that few or no one wanted.

People are more likely to be persuaded by what they hear themselves say.

You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war.

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

Beauty itself doth of itself persuadeThe eyes of men without an orator.

All orators are dumb when beauty pleadeth.

They fool me to the top of my bent.

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.

Romans, countrymen, and lovers! hear me for my cause; and be silent, that you may hear.

Give you a reason on compulsion! if reasons were as plenty as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion, I.

For these fellows of infinite tongue, that can rime themselves into ladies' favors, they do always reason themselves out again.

I want that glib and oily artTo speak and purpose not.

Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way. —Daniele Vare, Italian diplomat We

People generally can not believe themselves so easily manipulated and controllable. This is precisely why they are so easy to manpulate and contol.

They fight and kill each other. Instead of respecting another man's way, they stop at nothing to get him to adopt their way. Like the Mormons." The

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.

Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.

The best way to get a puppy is to beg for a baby brother — and they'll settle for a puppy every time.

There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it it does not need to convince others by force that it is right

I was involved in an extremely good example of oral contraception two weeks ago. I asked a girl to go to bed with me, and she said "No."

I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said "No."

It's called a confidence game. Why? Because you give me your confidence? No. Because I give you mine.