Quotes About Communication

Men, they never think.

The two words expressed volumes.

Ladies tell their nurses things in a sudden burst of confidence, and then, afterwards, they feel uncomfortable about it and wish they hadn't! It's only human nature.

I felt a distinct pleasure in passing on my own discomfiture.

You mean you really want to marry me?" she asked with the air of one getting a thing perfectly clear. "More than anything in the world," I said - and I meant it. "You mean, you're in love with me?" "I'm in love with you." Her eyes were steady and grave. She said: "I think you're the nicest person in the world - but I'm not in love with you." "I'll make you love me." "That wouldn't do. I don't want to be made.

It's really very unpleasant. And not being able to say anything to answer back makes it rankle more, if you know what I mean.

So I suggest you cut the cackle and come to the horses.

Have you ever reflected, Madame, on the enormous part that Hearsay plays in life. "Mr. A said," "Mrs. B. told us." "Miss C. explained why –" and so on. And if the known facts seem to fit with what we have been told, then we never question them. There are so many things that do not concern us, and so we do not bother to uncover the actual facts.

I never gossip - but after all, a tongue is given one to speak with, and I'm not deaf mute. That you most certainly are not. A tongue, Henet, may sometimes be a weapon. A tongue may cause a death - may cause more than one death. I hope your tongue, Henet, has not caused a death.

The police, they're seemingly so frank, and they tell you nothing.

It can happen that if anyone is talking to a person they know cannot see well, they are careless. They permit themselves an expression of face that on other occasions they would not allow.

A lot of additional pain and grief is caused by honesty," remarked Hercule Poirot.

What I think is a different matter. Maybe I think some rather curious things—but until thinking's got you somewhere it's no use talking about it.

The things she said seemed to have very little relation to the last thing she had said a minute before. She was the sort of person, Tommy thought, who might know a great deal more than she chose to reveal.

When it is a question of an irate middle-aged lady, there is only one thing to be done - listen to her.

People bicker so and have such rows. Even if they're fond of each other, they still seem to have rows and not to mind a bit whether they have them in public or not.

I should like to knock their silly heads together. What is the sense of laughing all the time? They are not saying anything funny.

That's how they do it, these girls! Othello charmed Desdemona by telling her stories, but, oh, didn't Desdemona charm Othello by the way she listened?

It's often when you're talking over things that you seem to see your way clear. Your mind gets made up for you sometimes without your knowing how it's happened. Talking leads to a lot of things one way or another.

Do you know what I've been thinking, Tommy?" "It's impossible to say," replied her husband. "You think of so many things, and you think of them all at once.

Speech, so a wise old Frenchman said to me once, is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking. It is also an infallible means of discovering that which he wishes to hide.

What's wrong with Shakespeare?" I{Jerry} inquired in interest. " Twisting himself up to say things in such a difficult way that you can't get at what he means. Still, I like some Shakespeare.

For, once there's a death, one doesn't like to think there's been harsh words spoken and no chance of taking them back.

I think Mrs. Leidner seems happier already from just talking about it. That's always a help, you know. It's bottling things up that makes them get on your nerves.