Rhetorical Question Quotes

#1. Has the casual use of profanity in English reached a high tide? That's a rhetorical question, but I'm going to answer it anyway: Fuck yeah.

Mary Norris

#2. There's something I want to show you. Do you think anyone would notice if we slipped away for a bit?" He raised an eyebrow at her. "Given that we make up a full quarter of the guest list, I would be a little insulted if they didn't notice." "It was a rhetorical question.

Marissa Meyer

#3. Yes," Lisa said with the usual blank honestly. She frowned. "Was that a sincere question? Or a scolding rhetorical question akin to Harilotecca's speech patterns?

Ash Gray

#4. I've been around so long, I can remember when it was a rhetorical question to ask, "Is the pope Catholic?" Now it's a legit question.

Rush Limbaugh

#5. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the rhetorical question

Josh Stern

#6. What is in the air there in Washington, what is in the water? What is wrong with them? This is not a rhetorical question. I think it is unspoken question No.1 as Americans look at so many of the individuals in our government. What is wrong with them?

Peggy Noonan

#7. It was an allegorical, metaphorical, rhetorical question.

Billy Phillips

#8. Art has always been this
pure interrogation, rhetorical question less the rhetoric
whatever else it may have been obliged by social reality to appear.

Samuel Beckett

#9. That was a rhetorical question! Don't you even know what a rhetorical question is?"

Miles didn't know whether to answer.

Jory John

#10. O love-why can't you leave me alone? Which is a rhetorical question meaning: for heaven's sake, don't.

Thomas Merton

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. Well," a female voice said. "What have we here?"
"Here," Bethany said, responding to the woman's rhetorical question, "we have a teenager. And she's pissed.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#14. What am I to do with you?" Redd asked.
"M-maybe you could-" Jack began.
The Cat raised a paw. "I know."
"It was a rhetorical question, fools! You don't answer it! Since when do I need help making anyone suffer?

Frank Beddor

#15. 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

#16. Dad, I'll never do any better. He's smart and funny and good-looking.."
Stephanie," he took both my hands, "how could you do any worse?"
Best rhetorical question ever.

Stephanie Klein

#17. All rhetorical questions are accusations.

David Mamet

#18. In the woods waits the only person with whom I can be myself. Gale. I can feel the muscles in my face relaxing, my pace quickening as I climb the hills

Suzanne Collins

#19. The baby, not too young to start knowing the ledge, the cold truth, the life-and-death facts of it all. 'What kind of heaven is that, you can't have your records?' The baby, understanding perhaps it was purely rhetorical, made no attempt to answer this question.

Michael Chabon

#20. In their recently aborted struggle to inject Genesis literalism into science classrooms, fundamentalist groups followed their usual opportunistic strategy of arguing two contradictory sides of a question when a supposed rhetorical advantage could be extracted from each ...

Stephen Jay Gould

#21. When God asks a question, it is always rhetorical.

Ron Brackin

#22. It is my personality alone that has brought back the waltz and made it a global craze.

Andre Rieu

#23. I don't think I have any celeb crushes!

AJ Michalka

#24. There can be little question that good composition is far less dependent upon acquaintance with its laws, than upon practice and natural aptitude. A clear head, a quick imagination, and a sensitive ear, will go far towards making all rhetorical precepts needless.

Herbert Spencer

#25. Who's crazy: people who trust other people, or people who don't?

Lenore Skenazy

#26. If jealousy was the vindaloo of love, I'd imagined her tongue burning, and such a fire forcing her to spill her truth.

Hanif Kureishi

#27. There are a lot of things that I love, but if you're just completely invested in those things, their opposite can kick you over ... So the trick is finding out how to maintain your balance when you're in situations with the people who make you happy and when you're not.

Rebecca De Mornay

#28. How many roads must a man walk down.. Before you can call him a Man..

Bob Dylan

#29. The duty of criticism is neither to depreciate nor dignify by partial representations, but to hold out the light of reason, whatever it may discover; and to promulgate the determinations of truth, whatever she shall dictate

Samuel Johnson

#30. Knowledge is only one ingredient on arriving at a stock's proper price. The other ingredient, fully as important as information, is sound judgment.

Benjamin Graham

#31. If practice makes perfect, and no one's perfect, then why practice?

Billy Corgan

#32. Here, Courtney, is your contribution to the anthology of my life.
Did you like that? The anthology of my life?
I just made it up.

Jay Asher

#33. So I want to ask you a hypothetical question.
My favorite kind. Next to rhetorical ones. I can nap equally well through either kind.

Orson Scott Card

#34. What have the Romans ever done for us?

John Cleese

#35. 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