Quotes About Communication

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

I had no particular desire to enlighten them, but I had some difficulty in restraining myself from laughing in their faces, so full of stupid importance.

There is a weird power in a spoken word.

Are not our lives too short for that full utterance which through all our stammerings is of course our only and abiding intention?

You perceive the force of a word. He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense... Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.

It's queer how out of touch with truth women are. They live in a world of their own, and there has never been anything like it, and never can be.

A diplomatic statement ... is a statement of which everything is true but the sentiment which seems to prompt it.

one moment and bright the next. When the manager, escorted by the pilgrims, all of them armed to the teeth, had gone to the house, this chap came on board. 'I say, I don't like this. These natives are in the bush,' I said. He assured me earnestly it was all right. 'They are simple

the weakness of many tellers of tales who seem so often unaware of what their audience would best like to hear;

One writes only half the book; the other half is with the reader.

I don't want to excuse myself; but I would like to explain—I would like somebody to understand—somebody—one person at least! You! Why not you?

doomed to be the recipient of confidences...

There must be a wonderful soothing power in mere words since so many men have used them for self-communion. Being

It's queer how out of touch with truth women are. They live in a world of their own, and there had never been anything

Conrad actively sought the reader's collaboration in the production of meaning, telling a friend 'one writes only half the book; the other half is with the reader' (Letters, i, 370).

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. I

And Mrs Verloc, in her varied experience, had come to the conclusion that some foreigners could speak better English than the natives.

He was a corpulent man, with a gift for sly chaffing, which to the end of his life he exercised in his intercourse with his son, a little pityingly, as if upon a half-witted person.

Charles Gould did not open his heart to her in any set speeches. He simply went on acting and thinking in her sight. This is the true method of sincerity.

I could be eloquent were I not afraid you fellows had starved your imaginations to feed your bodies.

Les mots, vous le savez, sont les plus grands ennemis de la réalité.

it occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.

Wir gehen mit Worten Kompromisse ein. Es hilft uns auch nicht weiter.Es ist wie ein Wald in dem niemand den Weg kennt. Man ist verloren, während man noch ruft: Ich bin gerettet.

Frankly, it is not my words that I mistrust, but your minds.