Quotes About Communication

There is nothing so dangerous for any one who has something to hide as conversation!

Mr Rycroft said nothing. It was so difficult not to say the wrong thing to Captain Wyatt that it was usually safer not to reply at all.

The vicar, a gentle, middle-aged man, was always the last to hear anything.

I wonder if husbands know as much about their wives as they think they do. If I had a husband, I should hate him to bring home orphans without consulting me first.

You speak of my manner to you being insulting. Well, once or twice, your manner has annoyed me " "I am enchanted to hear it," said Poirot.

Oh, the glorious relief, the wonderful relief when somebody knows what's in your mind and tells it to you so that you are at last released from that long bondage of silence.

He takes everything seriously. That is what makes him so difficult to live with.

If you disperse energy in speech, it doesn't leave you too much over for action.

They were silent with the comfortable silence of two people who know each other very well indeed.

Monsieur, pray confine yourself to the point.

My dear Boris, can you not take a joke?" "Was it a joke?

Tommy, why did they put Maldon Surrey on the telegram?" "Because Maldon is in Surrey, idiot.

The old gentleman refuses to have the telephone which he regards as a device of the devil, and on a par with radio, television, cinema organs and jet planes, so I had to take a chance of finding him at home.

When a man has a charming, gracious, intelligent wife, he's no business to treat her badly.

Speech, so a wise old Frenchman said to me once, is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking.

It is romantic, you know, the transatlantic telephone. To speak so easily to someone nearly halfway across the globe. The telegraphed photograph - that, too, is romantic. Science is the greatest romance there is.

These older people were the limit... They harped on things so.

Now we can talk," said Poirot. "When I say that, I mean, really, that I shall talk.

I'm not very good at telling things. I mean if I write things, I get them perfectly clear, but if I talk, it always sounds the most frightful muddle.

Mademoiselle, se non è sposata, vuol dire che nessuno del mio sesso è stato abbastanza eloquente: per scelta e non per necessità, si resta nubili.

these twitterers can tell one a lot if one just lets them—twitter!

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. A human being, Hastings, cannot resist the opportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away.

But there are three people, madame, to whom a woman should speak the truth. To her Father Confessor, to her hairdresser and to her private detective – if she trusts him.

Tuppence had once laid upon him a serious injunction. ' If anybody over the age of sixty-five finds fault with you,' she said, 'never argue. Never try to say you're right. Apologize at once and say it was all your fault and you're very sorry and you'll never do it again.