Communication

Silence is of different kinds, and breathes different meanings.

- Charlotte Brontë Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Mrs. Bittacy rustled ominously, holding her peace meanwhile. She feared long words she did not understand. Beelzebub lay hid among too many syllables.

- Algernon Blackwood Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The legend went, unconfirmed and unaccredited, but still propagated.

- Charlotte Brontë Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Whatever may be said about the power of the press, it is undeniable that it can set the entire public thinking and talking about any topic . . .

- Charles Dudley Warner Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

. . . the world prefers decorum to honesty.

- George Meredith Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

One can say everything best over a meal.

- George Eliot Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I was discreet. I tried to curb my own emotions and to discourage hers. For my own part I fear that I betrayed myself, for the eye becomes more eloquent when the tongue is silent.

- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth,When thought is speech, and speech is truth.

- Sir Walter Scott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

But there are some things one takes for granted, supposes are mutually understood, and to which both parties may repeatedly refer without ever meaning the same thing.

- Charlotte Gilman Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Every one wanted to say so much that no one said anything in particular.

- Rudyard Kipling Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Leverage is everything,--was what I used to say--don't begin to pry till you have got the long arm on your side.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I talk half the time to find out my own thoughts, as a school-boy turns his pockets inside out to see what is in them. One brings to light all sorts of personal property he had forgotten in his inventory.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

You quote an isolated sentence from my lecture, and appear to have some difficulty in understanding it. I should have thought that only a sub-human intelligence could have failed to grasp the point, but if it really needs amplification I shall consent to see you at the hour named . . .

- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right.

- Charles Dickens Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

People who are in earnest are always interesting, whether you agree with them or not . . .

- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter's evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a note of intimacy seldom heard by day.

- Virginia Woolf Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Women can resist a man's love, a man's fame, a man's personal appearance, and a man's money, but they cannot resist a man's tongue when he knows how to talk to them.

- Wilkie Collins Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Nobody talks much that does n't say unwise things,--things he did not mean to say as no person plays much without striking a false note sometimes.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

A slight throbbing about the temples told me that this discussion had reached saturation point.

- P. G. Wodehouse Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.

- Harry Truman Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It was admitted on all sides that Challenger's opening half-hour was a magnificent display of oratory and argument. His deep organ voice -- such a voice as only a man with a fifty-inch chest can produce -- rose and fell in a perfect cadence which enchanted his audience.

- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

. . . it is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.

- George Eliot Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.

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