Sari Quotes
Oratory is the power of beating down your adversary's arguments and putting better in their place.
Samuel Johnson (1798). “Dr. Johnson's Table Talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners; with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Dr. Boswell's Life of Johnson”, p.24
Sachin Kundalkar (2016). “Cobalt Blue: A Novel”, p.24, New Press, The
Catch-22 ch. 5 (1961).
That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed. It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed.
Catch-22 (1961) ch. 5 (the first chapter of this novel was published as Catch-18 in New World Writing (1955) No. 7 - see Kiley and MacDonald "Catch-22" Casebook (1973) 294)
Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.22, Simon and Schuster
Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.
James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1786). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.32
Edmund Burke (1839). “The Works of Edmund Burke ...”, p.474