Rhetorical Quotes: top 59 famous quotes about Rhetorical

Rhetorical Quotes & Sayings

Happy to read and share the best inspirational Rhetorical quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.

Good. Well. Shit." Locke rubbed his gloved hands together. "I guess that's that. I'm all out of rhetorical flourishes. — Scott Lynch

I think that when you reveal things that are going to cause pain, you have rhetorical resources in poetry. — Vijay Seshadri

O love-why can't you leave me alone? Which is a rhetorical question meaning: for heaven's sake, don't. — Thomas Merton

The revival in religion will be a rhetorical problem - new persuasive words for defaced or degraded ones. — Thornton Wilder

As we all know, there is no force stronger in the rhetorical universe than that of liberal race-guilt. — Greg Gutfeld

What have the Romans ever done for us? — John Cleese

Obama's rhetorical overtures to democracy, it turned out, were just a decoy to conceal his unwavering determination to govern from the far left. — Sean Hannity

That was a rhetorical question! Don't you even know what a rhetorical question is?"

Miles didn't know whether to answer. — Jory John

So far the changes in the president in his second term have been mainly of a rhetorical nature. — Brent Scowcroft

President Reagan is a rhetorical roundheels, as befits a politician seeking empathy with his audience. — William Safire

By way of personal instinct, I have an inherent distaste for grandiose rhetorical statements, which don't have any substantive dimension to them — Kevin Rudd

Women are good at rhetorical questions, aren't they? — Stephen King

Who's crazy: people who trust other people, or people who don't? — Lenore Skenazy

All language is rhetorical, and even the senses are poets. — George Santayana

Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth. — George Santayana

Parla Come Mangi'
It is a common way to say 'be simple', 'don't try to be rhetorical' literaly: 'speak the way you eat — Elizabeth Gilbert

I like to use research to enlarge the poem. And sometimes a rhetorical or syntactical gesture stitches the poem along. — Alison Hawthorne Deming

Genuine dialogue, not rhetorical bomb-throwing, leads to progress. — Mark Udall

How can I wear a leather suit that does not carry the stains of wine and blood?" asks CT, and Gustav does not answer; of course it was rhetorical — Alissa Nutting

If practice makes perfect, and no one's perfect, then why practice? — Billy Corgan

Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman. — P. J. O'Rourke

Why do they call it rush hour if no one moves? — Robin Williams

I don't want to become a rhetorical speaker. My effectiveness is mastering all of the data and being able to respond. — Norman Finkelstein

So I want to ask you a hypothetical question.
My favorite kind. Next to rhetorical ones. I can nap equally well through either kind. — Orson Scott Card

It was an allegorical, metaphorical, rhetorical question. — Billy Phillips

Attempts to nail down "who we really are" most often serve as rhetorical pawns in unwinnable arguments fueled by competing agendas — Maggie Nelson

Bill Knott's poems are ... rhetorical fluff ... and fake. — Ron Loewinsohn

The second most important attribute of winners, after understanding the human dimension, is knowing what questions to ask, the rhetorical nature. — Frank Luntz

Do the rhetorical quarrels of bourgeois political parties have anything to do with the interests of the humble and downtrodden? — Mario Vargas-Llosa

You can be yourself without pursuing yourself. Have you ever seen a dog chase his own tail? He just runs in circles. — Criss Jami

If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the rhetorical question — Josh Stern

Natural rights, nonsense; natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense, elevated nonsense, nonsense going on stilts. — John Stuart Mill

What will we care for the why and the wherefore? — Graham Greene

There's something about rhetorical violence that is ugly and worrying. — Mario Cuomo

That's a rhetorical question, and trying to answer rhetorical questions instead of being cowed by them is a good habit to cultivate. — Daniel C. Dennett

Do I know what rhetorical means? — Homer

We find rhetorical situations everywhere in life, and only our imaginations can get us out of them. — Northrop Frye

How many roads must a man walk down.. Before you can call him a Man.. — Bob Dylan

I think of a monument as being symbolic and for the people and therefore rhetorical, not honest, not personal. — Claes Oldenburg

Associational ad hominem attacks remain the left's favorite rhetorical strategy for undermining opponents. — Jonah Goldberg

Take a moment to catch your breath and revel in your rhetorical mastery and achievement. — Christopher Moore

The dangerous pileup of modifiers is a hallmark of Joel's rhetorical style. — Michael Pollan

Has the casual use of profanity in English reached a high tide? That's a rhetorical question, but I'm going to answer it anyway: Fuck yeah. — Mary Norris

When God asks a question, it is always rhetorical. — Ron Brackin

It is best to avoid analogy except for purposes of suggestion, or as a rhetorical device for explaining an idea already arrived at by other means. — Henry Hazlitt

The problems seem so easy out there on the stump. Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish. — Hugh Sidey

The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry? — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense - nonsense upon stilts. — Jeremy Bentham

Here, Courtney, is your contribution to the anthology of my life.
Did you like that? The anthology of my life?
I just made it up. — Jay Asher

To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation - is that good for the world? — Christopher Hitchens

I've been around so long, I can remember when it was a rhetorical question to ask, "Is the pope Catholic?" Now it's a legit question. — Rush Limbaugh

The niftiest turn of phrase, the most elegant flight of rhetorical fancy, isn't worth beans next to a clear thought clearly expressed. — Jeff Greenfield

Ut mos totus rhetoricus problemati terminus?
(When will all the rhetorical questions end?) — Mike Thomas

Without critical work, political awareness is likely to remain superficial and rhetorical. — Carter Heyward

Hypotyposis is the rhetorical effect by which words succeed in rendering a visual scene. — Umberto Eco

There are occasions when the simplest and fewest words surpass in effect all the wealth of rhetorical amplification. — George Henry Lewes

All rhetorical questions are accusations. — David Mamet

He wanted to ask whether she were insane, but he had been married long enough to know the price of injudicious rhetorical questions. — Diana Gabaldon

The peculiar circumstances arising out of the fall of the Syracusan tyranny seem to have produced the first practitioners of the art of rhetorical — Aristotle.