
Top 13 Rhetorical Questions In Quotes
#1. 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
#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. 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
#4. 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
#5. The second most important attribute of winners, after understanding the human dimension, is knowing what questions to ask, the rhetorical nature.
Frank Luntz
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. What will we care for the why and the wherefore?
Graham Greene
#9. Women are good at rhetorical questions, aren't they?
Stephen King
#10. 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
#11. All rhetorical questions are accusations.
David Mamet
#12. Ut mos totus rhetoricus problemati terminus?
(When will all the rhetorical questions end?)
Mike Thomas
#13. To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation - is that good for the world?
Christopher Hitchens
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