Peggy Noonan Quotes

Most popular Peggy Noonan Quotes

Resentment isn't a magnetic personal style. - Peggy Noonan quote.
Resentment isn't a magnetic personal style.
— Peggy Noonan What I Saw at the Revolution

resentment

A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! - Peggy Noonan quote.
A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep!
— Peggy Noonan What I Saw at the Revolution

oratory

Humor is the shock absorber of life; it helps us take the blows. - Peggy Noonan quote.
Humor is the shock absorber of life; it helps us take the blows.
— Peggy Noonan What I Saw at the Revolution

humor

Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk. - Peggy Noonan quote.
Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.
— Peggy Noonan What I Saw at the Revolution

friendship honesty candor

Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it's everything. - Peggy Noonan quote.
Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it's everything.
— Peggy Noonan in Catholic New York
Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature. - Peggy Noonan quote.
Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature.
— Peggy Noonan What I Saw at the Revolution

wit humor

The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain. - Peggy Noonan quote.
The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.
— Peggy Noonan What I Saw at the Revolution
Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen. - Peggy Noonan quote.
Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.
— Peggy Noonan What I Saw at the Revolution

politics

Wit penetrates; humor envelops.  Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature.
— Peggy Noonan What I Saw at the Revolution

wit humor wit vs. humor