What's all this love of arguing? No one ever convinces anyone else.

The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible.

He disliked contradiction, and still more, arguments that were continually skipping from one thing to another, introducing new and disconnected points, so that there was no knowing to which to reply.

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

Argument are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.