Argumentative Quotes

A person with 'oppositional conversational style' is a person who, in conversation, disagrees with and corrects whatever you say. He or she may do this in a friendly way, or a belligerent way, but this person frames remarks in opposition to whatever you venture.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Donald Trump is somebody who I think likes to mix it up and to have a vigorous debate.

Goats are the cable talk show panelists of the animal world, ready at a moment's notice to interject, interrupt, and opine. They have something to say about everything, little of it complimentary. They are the most impertinent animals I have ever known.

Why do you always have to be right. Why do you always have to have the last word. For once in your life just let it go.

I dare anyone to debate me on things.

I'm not good with catty girls. I'm too laid-back.

I do remember the whole thing as being very argumentative, hot blooded... a permanent state of friction between Jon and Chris, Chris and me, me and Jon.

At times, conservatives become defined by their volume rather than by their ideas.

The passive aggressive arguer comes armed with tricky tactics. They cannot take the risk that they might be wrong: their self-esteem is too intertwined with their opinions. It is more important to affirm their rightness, and sense of superiority, than to arrive at the truth.

Anyone who knows me knows how sharp my mind is. I speak at a thousand miles an hour. I'll hold a discussion or a debate with anyone.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarrelling, filled with imagination and with appetite for the new and with respect for the old - somebody who takes good care of things and of people.

I've never been mugged, never really experienced street fear. In fact, I'm the one who gets into arguments because I don't keep my mouth shut.

He was amenable to argument, but it took a hell of a lot of argument

I'm the type of person, I'll fight whoever.

Old men are cantankerous: they like to get their own way.

I'm a big fan of Yoko, one of those weird people who really love her music, and who argues with people all the time, because people do write her off.

The moment you say, 'Please, give me a reason for this', then you are being impossible and temperamental.

I am afraid he is too pugnacious... I want peace... Theodore is always getting into rows with everybody

I was exceptionally opinionated as a teenager, never afraid to rant and ruin a birthday party or cinema trip.

... there's nothing but quarreling with the women; it's my belief they like it better than victuals and drink.

I am cantankerous.

One of the people I most admired was Christopher Hitchens. He was extremely polarizing but extremely honest, to a fault sometimes, but I respected him for that, and I loved his debating style.

What I like least about myself is my belligerence.