Quotes About Communication

I am a bottomless well of revelation but cannot force the ignorant to drink.

If you judge your thoughts worth hearing, pronounce them proudly, push them to every corner of the chamber, fill the hall with your hopes and desires and make every listener share them! If you are ashamed of your thoughts, better to leave a silence.

I used to love to hear stories of that man's exploits! One of my heroes, when I was young. Riding round the enemy, harassing his lines of communication, falling on the baggage train and whatnot." The Prince's riding crop rode around, harassed, and fell on imaginary baggage in the air before him.

The clever words leaked out of his mind and he spoke without thinking, looking her straight in the eye. Maybe this was what honesty felt like.

You look especially beautiful this morning, Monza.' She sighed, as if that was an accident. As if she hadn't spent an hour preening herself before the mirror. 'Facts are facts. Stating them isn't a gift. You only prove you're not blind.' She yawned, stretched in her saddle, made him wait a moment longer. 'But I'll hear more.

Truly clever things are said with short words. Long ones are used to hide stupidity

Who asked your opinion?' 'A man who doesn't want opinions should keep his own mouth shut.

Tell your father he must come himself. I do not waste my time on fools and younger sons. I am old fashioned in this. I like to talk to the horse's head, not the horse's arse.

Principles are like clothes,' said Vick, straightening her jacket. 'You have to change them to suit the audience.

Suddenly he felt that there had been so much he needed to say to his father. He had always supposed they would discuss the important things later. The profound things. But it would never happen. There had only been a fixed time in his presence, and Orso had pissed it all away talking about the weather, and there would be no more.

A good liar tells as much truth as he can. That way you never know what you're getting.

what really happened doesn't matter half so much as what people want to hear.

Laughing with a man was a good step forward. First comes the laughter, then the respect, then the trust.

Laž se može pretvoriti u istinu ako se izvikuje dovoljo ?esto.

Um homem que não quer opiniões deveria manter a boca fechada.

A man who doesn't want opinions should keep his own mouth shut.

If you have to tell someone you are furious, and then, furthermore, that you mean it, your fury has failed to achieve its desired effect.

He fell back, blood pouring from his split mouth. He was trying to say something but all he could say was blood and that was eloquence enough, in its way.

Fuck," he whispered. "Aye," said Shivers. Craw almost took a tumble on the wet grass. 'Til he remembered there was an awful lot a man could be saying fuck about. That's the beauty of the word. It can mean just about anything, depending on how things stand.

Smile, I said. You're not trying to sell him your teeth.

Why do big mouths and little brains so often go together?

Above all, he has learned the trick of saying a great deal less than he knows.

Since his earliest remembrances, Morveer seemed always to have had an uncanny aptitude for saying the wrong thing. When he meant to contribute, he would find he was complaining. When he intended to be solicitous, he would discover he was insulting. When he sought earnestly to provide support, he would be construed as undermining. He wanted only to be valued, respected, included, and yet somehow every attempt at good fellowship only made matters worse.

A few words can be more effective than a lot of blades, even in such times as these.