Communication Quotes

One of the elements of a happy home is a careful attention to courtesy. Family affection may be strong and devoted, but it is hard to realize it when the manner is hasty, the speech sarcastic or fault finding.

If dogs could talk, it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.

The only way to settle questions of an ideological nature or controversial issues among the people is by the democratic method, the method of discussion, of criticism, of persuasion and education, and not by the method of coercion or repression.

Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience. (“Calvin and Hobbes”)

Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.

They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress, you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.

The advantage of modern means of communication is they enable you to worry about things in all of the world.

The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.