Dean Inge Quotes

God and my dad gave me the gift of gab. I know how to finagle.

I am a very persuasive man.

I consider myself to be quite persuasive when I want.

I did a lot of fast talking as a youth; I was pretty good at it. I was never talked into it - I was always the one doing the talking.

Most people don't have the power of persuasion.

I consider myself a persuasive person. With the ability to persuade comes a certain level of power.

Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.

I think the power of persuasion would be the greatest superpower of all time.

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

I find a way to convince people to come along with me. They want to be persuaded. When I sit in a room with you I'm going to sell you something whether you want it or not. At the end you'll say: 'I'm glad I bought that.'

I could sway people with words—words that welled up within me.

Nothing is so difficult to believe that oratory cannot make it acceptable …

Power comes through public persuasion.

You can't just give a speech and expect people to fall down and agree with you.

Persuasiveness takes finesse; it takes an understanding of human psychology. And intention is everything.

At the end of reasons comes persuasion.

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.

The writing is all done, so it's all about verbalizing everything from point A to point B, and certainly there's a bit of politics involved, so it's a different thing.

With my natural communication abilities, I could probably gather a crowd even without the Spirit.

Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes' without asking a clear question.

The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.

It is true the orator may make a myriad replica of his own passion out of those who listen to him. But that does not prove he is right or they are not fools.

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.