Communication Quotes

"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean-neither more nor less." ~ Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll Fair speech may hide a foul heart. ~ The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels. ~ Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low. Then one gave it up; then the idea sunk back again; then one became like most middle-aged people, cautious, furtive, with wrinkles between the eyes and a look of perpetual apprehension. ~ To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf With every word she was drawing further and further into herself, so he gave that up and only the dead dream fought on as the afternoon slipped away, trying to touch what was no longer tangible, struggling unhappily, undespairingly, toward that lost voice across the room. ~ The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts. ~ Anne of the Island by Lucy Maud Montgomery "Most of the trouble in life comes from misunderstanding, I think," said Anne. ~ Anne of the Island by Lucy Maud Montgomery "When you've learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those that shouldn't, you've got wisdom and understanding." ~ Anne of the Island by Lucy Maud Montgomery "I don't like irony," she said; "it indicates a small soul." ~ The Land That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs "I make no manner of doubt that you threw a very diamond of truth at me, though you see it hit me so directly in the face that it wasn't exactly appreciated, at first." ~ Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe