Don't talk to me of your Archimedes' lever. He was an absentminded person with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands all my respect, but I have no use for engines. Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.
The name 'Charmageddon' actually comes from a social technique that I use. Which is, you know, literally obliterating people with charm so that you can get away with saying stuff that no one else could ever get away with, you know?
It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in it's place is a work extremely troublesome.
Words are seductive and dangerous material, to be used with caution.
He who wants to persuade should put his trust, not in the right argument, but in the right word.
Unless your name is Jack Bauer, you cannot make people talk.
The arts of speech are rhetoric and poetry. Rhetoric is the art of transacting a serious business of the understanding as if it were a free play of the imagination; poetry that of conducting a free play of the imagination as if it were a serious business of the understanding.
Oratory is the power of beating down your adversary's arguments and putting better in their place.
When we humans speak, we are not merely communicating information but attempting to make an impression and achieve a goal.
Women can resist a man's love, a man's fame, a man's personal appearance, and a man's money, but they cannot resist a man's tongue when he knows how to talk to them.
Well chosen words mixed with measured emotions is the basis of affecting people.
Words can do wonderful things. They pound, purr. They can urge, they can wheedle, whip, whine. They can sing, sass, singe. They can churn, check, channelize. They can be a "Hup two three four." They can forge a fiery army of a hundred languid men.
Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action.
As soon as you start preaching, nobody wants to hear you because then you're a jerk.
A lord must learn that sometimes words can accomplish what swords cannot.
The art of those who govern consists above all in the science of employing words.
A country girl can talk her way out of a ticket.
Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator.
The laurels of an orator who is not a master of literary art wither quickly.
Being articulate, my parents could make anything sound reasonable.
An effective speaker can do more damage or more good in a well-stated minute than an angry klutz could do in half an hour.
Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature.
There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner.
