Communication Quotes

"He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument." ~ Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare "Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news hath but a losing office, and his tongue sounds ever after as a sullen bell, rememb'red tolling a departing friend." ~ Henry IV, Part Two by William Shakespeare Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth,
When thought is speech, and speech is truth. ~ Marmion by Sir Walter Scott "But for mine own part, it was Greek to me." ~ Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story. ~ Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton The persons of their world lived in an atmosphere of faint implications and pale delicacies, and the fact that he and she understood each other without a word seemed to the young man to bring them nearer than any explanation would have done. ~ The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton "And a word carries far--very far--deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space." ~ Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. ~ Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad Human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to make bears dance when we long to move the stars. ~ Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert "But you have no idea how frightfully interesting it is to take a human being and change her into a quite different human being by creating a new speech for her. It's filling up the deepest gulf that separates class from classand soul from soul." ~ Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw