Persuasion Quotes

“Haply a woman's voice may do some goodWhen articles too nicely urged be stood on.”

“If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect. We are advertis'd by our loving friends.”

“Go, write it in a martial hand; be curst and brief; it is no matter how witty, so it be eloquent and fun of invention: taunt him with the licence of ink: if thou thou'st him some thrice, it shall not be amiss; and as many lies as will lie in thy shee.”

“Your gentleness shall force More than your force move us to gentleness.”

“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.”

“If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.”

“The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.”

“Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.”

“Delivers in such apt and gracious words that aged ears play truant at his tales; And younger hearings are quite ravished; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.”

“Among provocative, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching.”

“Take no repulse, whatever she doth say; For 'get you gone,' she doth not mean 'away.' Flatter and praise, commend, extol their graces; Though ne'er so black, say they have angels' faces”

“Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear”

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

“Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man. There is one of whom we took no note, but on a certain occasion it appears that he has a secret virtue never suspected - that he can paint what has occurred and what must occur, with such clearness to a company, as if they saw it done before their eyes. By leading their thought he leads their will, and can make them do gladly what an hour ago they would not believe that they could be led to do at all.”

“You have witchcraft in your lips, there is more eloquence in a sugar touch of them than in the tongues of the French council; and they should sooner persuade Harry of England than a general petition of monarchs.”

“Though your views are in straight antagonism to theirs, assume an identity of sentiment, assume that you are saying precisely thatwhich all think, and in the flow of wit and love roll out your paradoxes in solid column, with not the infirmity of a doubt.”

“Beauty itself doth of itself persuade the eyes of men without an orator.”

“Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.”

“Give me the facts, and I will twist them the way I want, to suit my argument.”

“Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.”

“The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.”

“Secrets of Closing the Sale, is essential reading. Ziglar tells us that selling and closing are not mysteries to be solved; instead they are as tangible as when his wife up-sold him on a new house.”

“Of all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory !!”

“not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of . . . but to place before mankind the common sense of the subject, in terms so plain and firm as to command their assent, and to justify ourselves in the independent stand we are compelled to take.”

“The influence exercised over the human mind by apt analogies is and has always been immense. Whether they translate an established truth into simple language or whether they adventurously aspire to reveal the unknown, they are among the most formidable weapons of the rhetorician.”