Quotes About Communication

Why, Perrin, you must know that I love you." She stood there, watching his mouth work, then spoke slowly and carefully. "Like a brother, you great wooden-headed lummox! The arrogance of men never ceases to amaze me. You all think everything has to do with you, and every woman has to desire you.

How can any man tell all that he knows, Great Lord," the little man said smoothly. "It would be only prattle, until it becomes useful.

Are we still friends? Can we be? Now?

explain if you could; your people did better if they knew the why as well as the what.

Men always say they didn't mean it that way. You would think they spoke a different language.

Perrin laid a finger across her lips just as she opened her mouth. She bit him—hard—but she did not say anything.

A wise ruler, Elayne thought, knows when to speak and when not.

Men always seem to refuse to admit they are sick until they're sick enough to make twice as much work for women. Then they claim they're well too soon, with the same result.

No need to shriek like a cat," Nynaeve growled, appearing in the stairwell. She was looking back over her shoulder down the stairs, though. "You hold her tight, you hear me?" she shrieked like a cat.

A man must know when to retreat from a woman," Bashere said to the air, "but a wise man knows that sometimes he must stand and face her.

a man needed all of his wits dealing with a woman. Too often even that was not enough;

Each message had thickened the fog more than cleared it.

Men always seemed to think violence could solve anything. If she had had a stout stick, she would have thumped all three of them about the shoulders until they saw reason.

There's always something new from you,' Perrin growled. 'Can't you tell us what to expect once in a while, instead of explaining after it happens?

That was one thing he understood about women, Aiel, Two Rivers or whoever; fists on hips meant trouble.

He handed Mandarb off to a groom, holding up a finger to the horse and meeting his dark, liquid eyes. "No more biting grooms," he growled at the stallion.

My mother, she said firmly, always told me the best way to learn to deal with a man was to learn to ride a mule. She said they have about equal brains most of the time. Sometimes the mule is smarter.

Do not question me, she said coldly. You do not know which questions to ask, and you would comprehend less than half the answers if I gave them. Which I will not.

You must learn there is a time to speak all of the truth, and a time to govern your tongue. The least of the lessons you must learn, but important, if you mean to live long enough to wear the shawl of a full sister.

Sometimes he thought women all belonged to a guild, the way craftsmen in cities did. Put a foot wrong with one, and the next ten you met knew of it, and disapproved.

Morgase had a temper, but I thought I could ignore that, so it ended with her wanting to kill me. —Thom Merrillin from Wheel of Time

I won't shout at you! Nyanaeve shouted.

Usually when a woman was in the wrong, she could find so many things to blame on the nearest man that he wound up thinking maybe he really was at fault. In

about speaking up to Sitters, or