Quotes About Rhetorical Questions

#1. You can discover great things through 'mistakes.'

Jordan Bridges

#2. Can I ask you a personal question? Of all the rhetorical questions
in the world, that is the one which irritates me most with its
simultaneous gesture towards and denial of the trespass that is about
to follow.

Kamila Shamsie

#3. The Allies had made war on Napoleon as a tyrant and an oppressor of nations; yet once they had got him out of the way, they did him the favor of representing him as the torchbearer of the French Revolution. They did him the further favor of repeating his mistakes and besting him at them.

J. Christopher Herold

#4. Not all of Derrida's writing is to everyone's taste. He had an irritating habit of overusing the rhetorical question, which lends itself easily to parody: 'What is it, to speak? How can I even speak of this? Who is this "I" who speaks of speaking?

Terry Eagleton

#5. For the good of our environment, the good of the economy, and the good of the Nation, I strongly urge support of the upper Mississippi locks and dams project.

Leonard Boswell

#6. That's a rhetorical question, and trying to answer rhetorical questions instead of being cowed by them is a good habit to cultivate.

Daniel C. Dennett

#7. The second most important attribute of winners, after understanding the human dimension, is knowing what questions to ask, the rhetorical nature.

Frank Luntz

#8. Using rhetorical questions in speeches is a great way to keep the audience involved. Don't you think those kinds of questions would keep your attention?

Bo Bennett

#9. A rhetorical question. It has a question mark at the end, but you are not meant to answer it because the person who is asking it already knows the answer.

Mark Haddon

#10. I had escaped from my prior partisan mind-set (reject first, ask rhetorical questions later) and began to think about liberal and conservative policies as manifestations of deeply conflicting but equally heartfelt visions of the good society.28

Jonathan Haidt

#11. What will we care for the why and the wherefore?

Graham Greene

#12. Women are good at rhetorical questions, aren't they?

Stephen King

#13. I'm lucky - I can do two things at once.

Renee Fleming

#14. The French under the old monarchy held it for a maxim that the king could do no wrong . The Americans entertain the same opinion with respect to the majority ... If ever the free institutions of America are destroyed, that event may be attributed to the omnipotence of the majority.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#15. He wanted to ask whether she were insane, but he had been married long enough to know the price of injudicious rhetorical questions.

Diana Gabaldon

#16. For one change always leaves a dovetail into which another will fit.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#17. I'd never saved anyone or anything in my whole life. I didn't like the idea of it. I was nobody's hero. But the alternative option would have been to let Georgie die, so I guess just this once an exception had to be made.

Sarah Darlington

#18. All rhetorical questions are accusations.

David Mamet

#19. Ut mos totus rhetoricus problemati terminus?
(When will all the rhetorical questions end?)

Mike Thomas

#20. To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation - is that good for the world?

Christopher Hitchens