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| All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil. | | Samuel Johnson | |
| Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading | | Jonathan Swift | |
| Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion. | | Oscar Wilde | |
| Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing | | Oscar Wilde | |
| Arguments derived from probabilities are idle | | Plato | |
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| Arguments, like men are often pretenders | | Plato | |
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| He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense. | | Joseph Conrad | |
| I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing. | | Oscar Wilde | |
| If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names. | | Elbert Hubbard | |
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| That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not | | Thomas Paine | |
| The formula of the argument is simple and familiar: to dispose of a problem all that is necessary is to deny that it exists | | Henry Louis Mencken | |
| The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it. | | George Bernard Shaw | |
| The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum | | Charles Caleb Colton | |
