In families well ordered, there is always one firm, sweet temper, which controls without seeming to dictate. The Greeks represented Persuasion as crowned.
Persuasion is the resource of the feeble; and the feeble can seldom persuade. . .
His cold politeness, his ceremonious grace, were worse than anything.
Clarity (always) trumps persuasion
I am not in love But I'm open to persuasion.
Advertising is simply a use of the right of the manufacture to present his case and to employ the same arts of appeal and persuasion accorded to the politician, the preacher, the lawyer, and to every other individual who has a special interest in something, whether a creed or a commodity.
It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients.
Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?
Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents. . . . . Anybody who has to live with the people, who covers police stations, covers county courts, brought up that way, has to have a degree of humanity that people who do not have that exposure don't have, and some people interpret that to be liberal. It's not a liberal, it's humanitarian and that's a vastly different thing.