ARGUMENT QUOTES V

quotations about arguments & arguing

One single positive weighs more,
You know, than negatives a score.

MATTHEW PRIOR

Epistle to Fleetwood Shepherd


Nothing firms up a friendship like a good-natured argument.

LEMONY SNICKET

Who Could That Be at This Hour?


So high at last the contest rose,
From words they almost came to blows.

JAMES MERRICK

The Chameleon


The tree of knowledge blasted by dispute,
Produces saples leaves instead of fruit.

JOHN DENHAM

Progress of Learning


When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.

WILLIAM HAZLITT

Works


I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

SAMUEL JOHNSON

Life of Samuel Johnson


We arg'ed the thing at breakfast, we arg'ed the thing at tea,
And the more we arg'ed the question, the more we didn't agree.

WILL CARLETON

Betsy and I Are Out


This is no time nor fitting place to mar
The mirthful meeting with a wordy war.

LORD BYRON

Lara


For they are yet but ear-kissing arguments.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

King Lear


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

Hudibras


Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.

PETRARCH

To Laura in Life


Data levels all arguments.

ANTHONY W. RICHARDSON

Full-Scale


It doesn't matter if I know of what I speak
The arguer's strong if the argument's weak
It's persistance, insistence, and a nice healthy winning streak
I got the last word in, I'm happy to announce
I got the last word in and that's all that counts

SICKO

Last Word


Much may be said on both sides.

HENRY FIELDING

Covent Garden Tragedy


A keen wit stabs harder than a finely honed argument.

RACHEL HARTMAN

Tess of the Road


It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable.

WILLIAM PENN

Fruits of Solitude