A Quote by George Henry Lewes

There are occasions when the simplest and fewest words surpass in effect all the wealth of rhetorical amplification.

George Henry Lewes

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George Henry Lewes
English - Philosopher
April 18, 1817 - November 30, 1878

Hypotyposis is the rhetorical effect by which words succeed in rendering a visual scene.

Umberto Eco

Our words, actions, and diplomatic efforts should be aimed at trying to achieve pragmatic goals rather than creating rhetorical effect.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

In any piece of rhetorical discourse, one rhetorical term overcomes another rhetorical term only by being nearer to the term which stands ultimate. There is some ground for calling a rhetorical education necessarily aristocratic education in that the rhetorician has to deal with an aristocracy of notions.

Richard M. Weaver

Suddenly absurdism wasn’t an intellectual abstraction, it was actually realism. You could see the way that wealth was begetting wealth, wealth was begetting comfort — and that the cumulative effect of an absence of wealth was the erosion of grace.

George Saunders

That man has the fewest wants who is the least anxious for wealth.

Publilius Syrus

Real persuasion comes from putting more of you into everything you say. Words have an effect. Words loaded with emotion have a powerful effect.

Jim Rohn

Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.

George Santayana

When grief is deepest, words are fewest.

Ann Voskamp

Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.

Sophocles

Men who have much to say use the fewest words.

Josh Billings

Sometimes the saddest stories take the fewest words.

Karen Thompson Walker

Wealth, my son, should never be your goal in life. Your words are eloquent but they are mere words. True wealth is of the heart, not of the purse.

Og Mandino

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Bob Hope

The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.

Thomas Huxley

If you really understand something, you can say it in the fewest words, instead of thrashing about.

Paul Graham

The beauty of a Stradivarius is that you can play in Carnegie Hall without any amplification, and it has this - the sound has, inside it, has something that projects, and it has multifaceted sound, something that kind of gets lost when you use amplification anyway.

Joshua Bell

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