Quotes About Argument

My pappy told me never to bet my bladder against a brewery or get into an argument with people who buy ink by the barrel.

— Lane Kirkland

People are generally better persuaded by the reason which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come to the minds of others.

— Blaise Pascal

There is no such test of a man’s superiority of character as in the well-conducting of an unavoidable quarrel.

— Sir Henry Taylor

No matter what side of an argument you’re on, you always find some people on your side that you wish were on the other side.

— Jascha Heifetz

How come nobody wants to argue with me?  Is it because I’m always so right?

— Jim Bouton

It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

— Dean William R. Inge

When people agree with me, I always feel that I must be wrong.

— Oscar Wilde

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.

— Richard Whateley

I am not arguing with you — I am telling you.

— James McNeill Whistler

When people are least sure, they are often most dogmatic.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

My sad conviction is that people can only agree about what they’re not really interested in.

— Bertrand Russell

The best way of answering a bad argument is to let it go on.

— Sydney Smith

I dislike arguments of any kind.  They are always vulgar, and often convincing.

— Oscar Wilde

The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being right.

— Lord Hailsham

My idea of a disagreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

— Benjamin Disraeli

I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.

— Charles de Gaulle

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.

— Robert Quillen

The quiet shaft of ridicule ofttimes does more than argument.

— William Scarborough