It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles. Muriel Spark
The finest trick of the devil is to persuade you that he does not exist. Charles Baudelaire
We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves we have no great ones. François de La Rochefoucauld
Literary criticism has about it neither rigour nor proof. Where it is honest, it is passionate, private experience seeking to persuade. George Steiner
A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel. Frank Herbert
We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies. George Bernard Shaw