Quotes About Communication

At present he was answering questions that did not matter though they had a purpose, but he doubted whether he would ever again speak out as long as he lived.

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.

The most precise of her sayings seemed always to me to have enigmatical prolongations vanishing somewhere beyond my reach. I am reduced to suppose that she appreciated my attention and my silence. The attention she could see was quite sincere, so that the silence could not be suspected of coldness. It seemed to satisfy her. And it is to be noted that if she confided in me it was clearly not with the expectation of receiving advice, for which, indeed, she never asked.

The epigrammatic saying that speech has been given to us for the purpose of concealing our thoughts came into his mind.

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

It is very difficult to tell the truth, and young people are rarely capable of it.

we are speaking about cognitive meanings, which cannot be transferred into students as blood is pumped into veins. Learning the meaning of a piece of knowledge requires dialog, exchange, sharing, and sometimes compromise.

Never commence a sentence with And, But, Since, Because, and other similar weak words and never end it with prepositions, small, weak adverbs or pronouns.

There are four simple moods,—the Infinitive, the Indicative, the Imperative and the Subjunctive.

To use a big word or a foreign word when a small one and a familiar one will answer the same purpose, is a sign of ignorance.

A man may be able, educated, refined, of unblemished character, nevertheless if he lack the power to express himself, put forth his views in good and appropriate speech he has to take a back seat, while some one with much less ability gets the opportunity to come to the front because he can clothe his ideas in ready words and talk effectively.

The greatest scholar alive hasn't more than four thousand different words at his command, and he never has occasion to use half the number. In

Perspicuity demands the clearest expression of thought conveyed in unequivocal language, so that there may be no misunderstanding whatever of the thought or idea the speaker or writer wishes to convey.

subjects. Directions. CHAPTER XIII CHOICE OF WORDS

REQUIREMENTS OF SPEECH

but almost 10,000 of them are obsolete or meaningless today.

consideration, whether by discourse or correspondence.

Joseph Devlin

The three essentials of the English language are: Purity, Perspicuity and Precision.

the adverb as near as possible to the word it

When writing a letter the street laborer should bear in mind that only the letter of a street-laborer is expected from him, no matter to whom his communication may be addressed and that neither the grammar nor the diction of a Chesterfield or Gladstone is looked for in his language.

big word or a foreign word when a small one and a familiar one will answer the same purpose, is a sign of ignorance. Great scholars and writers and polite speakers use simple words.

Joseph Devlin

comma: John, you are a good man. In numeration, commas are used to express periods of three figures: Mountains 25,000 feet high; 1,000,000 dollars. The Semicolon marks a slighter connection than the