Famous Argument Quotes - Famous Quotes about Argument
A long dispute means both parties are wrong.
- Voltaire
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Anger is seldom without argument but seldom with a good one.
- Lord Halifax
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Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading.
- Jonathan Swift
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For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.
- William Shakespeare
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Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.
- Franklin Pierce
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I don't have to attend every argument I'm invited to.
- W. C. Fields
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I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.
- Margaret Thatcher
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I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules.
- Leo Durocher
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If you can't answer a man's argument, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
- Elbert Hubbard
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If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself.
- Joseph Farrell
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In a false quarrel there is no true valour.
- William Shakespeare
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It is not necesssary to understand things in order to argue about them.
- Pierre Beaumarchais
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It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.
- Oscar Wilde
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Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.
- E. M. Forster
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Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.
- Rufus Choate
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Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.
- Richard Whately
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Never argue; repeat your assertion.
- Robert Owen
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Never get into an argument with a schizophrenic person and say, "Who do you think you are?"
- Ray Combs
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One could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact.
- David F. Houston
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right.
- Lord Hailsham
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The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.
- Andre Maurois
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The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathizes with their just feelings.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.
- Ed Howe
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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 greatcoat.
- James Russell Lowell
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Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief.
- Francesco Petrarch
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You argue with the umpire because there is nothing else you can do about it.
- Leo Durocher
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