| 54 Argument Quotes
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“Much might be said on both sides.”
Joseph Addison Quotes Source: in the "Spectator", no. 122
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“How agree the kettle and the earthen pot together?”
Bible Quotes Source: Ecclesiasticus (ch. XIII, v. 2)
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“Where we desire to be informed 'tis good to contest with men
above ourselves; but to confirm and establish our opinions, 'tis
best to argue with judgments below our own, that the frequent
spoils and victories over their reasons may settle in ourselves
an esteem and confirmed opinion of our own.”
Sir Thomas Browne Quotes Source: Religio Medici (pt. I, VI)
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“The brilliant chief, irregularly great,
Frank, haughty, rash--the Rupert of debate.”
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton Quotes Source: The New Timon (pt. I)
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“And there begins a lang digression
About the lords o' the creation.”
Robert Burns Quotes Source: The Twa Dogs
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“Whatever Sceptic could inquire for,
For every why he had a wherefore.”
Samuel Butler (1) Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 131)
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“He'd undertake to prove, by force
Of argument, a man's no horse.
He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl,
And that a Lord may be an owl,
A calf an Alderman, a goose a Justice,
And rooks, Committee-men or Trustees.”
Samuel Butler (1) Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 71)
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“I've heard old cunning stagers
Say, fools for arguments use wagers.”
Samuel Butler (1) Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. II, canto I, l. 297)
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“'Twas blow for blow, disputing inch by inch,
For one would not retreat, nor t'other flinch.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto VIII, st. 77)
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“When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter."
And proved it--'t was no matter what he said.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto XI, st. 1), an allusion to a dissertation by Berkeley on Mind and Matter found in no
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“I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with
comprehension.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto XI, st. 1), an allusion to a dissertation by Berkeley on Mind and Matter found in no
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“The noble Lord (Stanley) was the Prince Rupert to the
Parliamentary army--his valour did not always serve his own
cause.”
Benjamin Disraeli Quotes Source: in a speech in the House of Commons
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“A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow.”
John Dryden Quotes Source: Amphitryon (act I, sc. 1)
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“The daughter of debate
That still discord doth sow.”
Elizabeth I Quotes Source: about Mary Queen of Scots
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“Reproachful speech from either side
The want of argument supplied;
They rail, reviled; as often ends
The contests of disputing friends.”
John Gay Quotes Source: Fables--Ravens--Sexton and Earth Worm (pt. II, l. 117)
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“I always admired Mrs. Grote's saying that politics and theology
were the only two really great subjects.”
Rt. Hon. William Ewart Gladstone Quotes Source: in a letter to Lord Roseberry
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“In arguing, too, the parson own'd his skill,
For even though vanquished he could argue still.”
Oliver Goldsmith Quotes Source: The Deserted Village (l. 211)
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“His conduct still right with his argument wrong.”
Oliver Goldsmith Quotes Source: Retaliation (l. 46)
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“I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellects
too. No, sir, these, I protest you, are too hard for me.”
Oliver Goldsmith Quotes Source: Vicar of Wakefield (ch. VII)
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“In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor
with serious pleading.”
Oliver Goldsmith Quotes Source: Vicar of Wakefield (ch. VII)
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“Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes
Error a fault, and truth discourtesy.”
George Herbert Quotes Source: Temple--Church Porch (st. 52)
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“I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an
understanding.”
Samuel Johnson Quotes Source: Boswell's Life of Johnson
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“Nay, if he take you in hand, sir, with an argument,
He'll bray you in a mortar.”
Ben Jonson Quotes Source: The Alchemist (act II, sc. 1)
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“Myself when young did eagerly frequent
Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument
About it and about: but evermore
Came out by the same door wherein I went.”
Omar Khayyam ("The Tent-Maker") Quotes Source: The Rubaiyat
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“There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only
argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.”
James Russell Lowell Quotes Source: Democracy and Other Addresses, Democracy
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