argue Quotes

“I honor my father, Susanna. But I tremble to see him denouncing our friends and neighbors. We’ll not have a friend left when this business is done. I told him so, and we argued fiercely. I am afraid a rift is coming between us that will never heal.” “I can’t do anything about the rift between you and your father, Johnathan,” I said. “But you’ll have me for a friend. Always.”

“I entered Excessive Modesty Mode. Nothing is stupider and more ineffective than Excessive Modesty Mode. It is a mode in which you show that you’re modest by arguing with someone who is trying to compliment you. Essentially, you are going out of your way to try to convince someone that you’re a jerk.”

“You might as well argue with a mirror as argue with each other. After all, aren’t we all really the same person?”

“The longer Father argued his case, the angrier she became. I could tell he had lost, and that I was becoming more and more isolated.”

“If you’re going to argue, and Jane usually was, you want people to line up all their objections at a time; then you can knock them all down at once.”