Quotes About Communication

Hash, x. There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is. Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable. Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.

TRUTHFUL, adj. Dumb and illiterate.

TELEPHONE n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.

LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.

Cribbage, n. A substitute for conversation among those to whom nature has denied ideas.

he had nothing to say and he said it

Conversation: A fair for the display of the minor mental commodities, each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own wares to observe those of his neighbor.

Dictionary, n. A malevolent literacy device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic.

Grammar, n. A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet of the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction.

Beware of the compound adjective, beloved of the tyro and the 'poetess'.

Positive, adj. Mistaken at the top of one's voice.

Phonograph - An irritating toy that restores life to dead noises.

DICTIONARY, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.

It is one of the important uses of civility to signify resentment.

LOQUACITY, n. A disorder which renders the sufferer unable to curb his tongue when you wish to talk.

being asked to dinner is not always the same thing as being asked to dine.

LOGOMACHY, n. A war in which the weapons are words and the wounds punctures in the swim-bladder of self-esteem—a kind of contest in which, the vanquished being unconscious of defeat, the victor is denied the reward of success.

BORE, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.

ARGUE, v.t. To tentatively consider with the tongue.

ADMIRAL, n. That part of a war-ship which does the talking while the figure-head does the thinking.

You don't have to speak. Words fade, she whispered. I know that better than anyone. Words are forgotten; they are regretted. Unnecessary. I know.

Words are an unreliable way to measure the heart", she said. "I'm more inclined to trust what I observe rather than what someone tells me.

How easily they spoke of love. And yet, when she'd needed the certainty of his feeling for her, he'd let her slip away, never able to bring himself to tell her about the ways in which he'd been changed. He'd been incapable he'd let Nenebah believe the problem lay with her.

I knew when not to speak, when not to let myself be heard. Silence was my friend, my twin, the other half of me. Silence was my weapon. Not a blustering gun, but an invisible spider's web.