Quotes About Communication

The softness of your voice covers the hardness of your words. You speak of sacrilege, but the sacrilege is in the separation of hearts that God has formed for each other!

Haydée addressed her with a heartrending expression on her face: 'How do you expect him to understand me, my sister? He is my master, and I his slave. He has the right to see nothing.' The count shuddered at the tone of this voice, which awoke the deepest fibres of his being.

One of his peculiarities was never to speak a word of French, which he however wrote with great facility.

Bueno, siempre labios que dicen lo que el corazón no siente

Believe me, to seek a quarrel with a man is a bad method of pleasing the woman who loves that man.

Hi ha paraules que tanquen una conversa com una porta de ferro.

It is with valets as with wives, they must be placed at once upon the footing in which you wish them to remain. Reflect upon it.

Nici unul nici altul îns? nu putea rosti o vorb?; p?rul unuia atingea fruntea celuilalt, r?suflarea amândurora se f?cuse una, mâinile le ardeau strâns înl?nÈ›uite.

Ah  ! murmura-t-il, j'entends parler un homme. » Il y avait quatre ou cinq ans qu'Edmond n'avait entendu parler que son geôlier, et pour le prisonnier le geôlier n'est pas un homme : c'est une porte vivante ajoutée à la porte de chêne, c'est un barreau de chair ajouté à ses barreaux de fer.

les murailles ont des oreilles, mais elles n'ont pas de langue ;

The movement of the arm, the sound of the voice, and the agility of the body were wanting, but the speaking eye sufficed for all.

It is with valets as with wives, they must be placed at once upon the footing in which you wish them to remain. Reflect upon it. D'Artagnan

When you wish to obtain some concession from a man's self-love, you must avoid even the appearance of wishing to wound it.

since like every man burdened with thoughts of the past, he was occupied with seeking the thread of his own ideas in those of the speaker.

If I have been your friend, Morcerf, your present manner of speaking would almost lead me to forget that I ever bore that title.

I have always been more afraid of a pen, a bottle of ink and a sheet of paper than of a sword or a pistol.

Balzampleu!" said the Swiss, who, despite the fine collection of oaths boasted by the German language, had taken to swearing in French.

Et parfois, en se rencontrant, nos regards avaient une éloquence qui palliait la retenue de nos discours.

It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.

Human understanding more easily invents new things than new words.

The two chief weapons which parties use in order to obtain success are the newspapers and public associations.

Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by their friends:

Equality sets men apart and weakens them; but the press places a powerful weapon within every man's reach, which the weakest and loneliest of them all may use. Equality deprives a man of the support of his connections; but the press enables him to summon all his fellow-countrymen and all his fellow-men to his assistance. Printing has accelerated the progress of equality, and it is also one of its best correctives.

In America there is scarcely a hamlet which has not its own newspaper