William Shakespeare Argument Quotations

Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake.

Waste not thy time in windy argument but let the matter drop.

I am afeard there are few die well that die in battle, for how can they charitably dispose of anything when blood is their argument?

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.

In a false quarrel there is no true valor.

I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth, the Countercheck Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie Direct.