Communication Quotes

An appreciative listener is always stimulating. ~ The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie "American slang is very expressive sometimes." ~ The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle My tongue will tell the anger of my heart,
Or else my heart, concealing it, will break. ~ The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare Never tell all you know—not even to the person you know best. ~ The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie "Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left." ~ Persuasion by Jane Austen She prized the frank, the open-hearted, the eager character beyond all others. Warmth and enthusiasm did captivate her still. She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped. ~ Persuasion by Jane Austen I like talking to a brick wall - it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me! ~ Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde "When a lady does consent to listen to an argument against her own opinions, she is always predetermined to withstand it—to listen only with her bodily ears, keeping the mental organs resolutely closed against the strongest reasoning." ~ The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte "If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues." ~ The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte "There is such a thing as looking through a person's eyes into the heart, and learning more of the height, and breadth, and depth of another's soul in one hour than it might take you a lifetime to discover, if he or she were not disposed to reveal it, or if you had not the sense to understand it." ~ The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte