Quotes About Communication

An increasing cackle of complaints, orders, and jests, and what to a European would have been bad language, came from behind the curtains. Here was evidently a woman used to command.

When little boys have learned a new bad word they are never happy till they have chalked it up on a door. And this also is Literature.

What avail is honour or a sword against a pen?

Now I see, however,'—he exhaled smoke slowly—'that it is with them as with all men—in certain matters they are wise, and in others most foolish. Very foolish it is to use the wrong word to a stranger; for though the heart may be clean of offence, how is the stranger to know that? He is more like to search truth with a dagger.

speak—a thing he would never have dared to do

That was our first step toward better acquaintance. He would call on me sometimes in the evenings instead of running about London with his fellow-clerks; and before long, speaking of himself as a

To things greater than all things are,   The first is Love, and the second War.   And since we know not how War may prove,   Heart of my heart, let us talk of Love!

There was never a Queen like Balkis From here to the wide world's end; But Balkis talked to a butterfly As you, would talk to a friend. There was never a king like Solomon, Not since the world began; But Solomon talked to a butterfly As a man would talk to a man. She was a queen of Sabea -- And he was Asia's Lord -- But they both of 'em talked to butterflies When they took their walks abroad

That was our first step toward better acquaintance. He would

Rikki-tikki's mother (she used to live in the general's house at Segowlee) had carefully told Rikki what to do if ever he came across white men.

Very foolish it is to use the wrong word to a stranger; for though the heart may be clean of offence, how is the stranger to know that? He is more like to search truth with a dagger.

Las palabras constituyen la droga más potente que haya inventado la humanidad.

Still, the place was a undoubtedly a telegraph-office

No; I want to send a telegram, if there's any electric fluid in this old tomb.

think there is a great deal in you; but you must not become proud and you must not talk.

besides, this is much too good to tell all the other brutes in the Coll. They'd never understand. They play cricket, and say, 'Yes sir', and 'Oh, sir', and 'No, sir'.

To discuss medicine before the ignorant is of one piece with teaching the peacock to sing,' said the hakim. 'True courtesy,' Kim echoed, 'is very often inattention.

Cuvintele sunt cel mai important drog utilizat de omenire.

I don't expect you to understand me any more than I can understand you; but I respect you and that's the difference between us.

She did not know that males do not care to be circumvented, however wonderfully, by their females.

Ayah,' said Sister Clodagh, 'you're not to say a word of this to the other servants.' 'Oh, no,' said Ayah, 'I'll keep it absolutely secret, and anyhow they all know.

Rush Limbaugh

No, because I am not a ventriloquist.

It's hard to know more about a person's life than what that person wants you to know.