Quotes About Communication

A sentence well couched takes both the sense and understanding. I love not those cart-rope speeches that are longer than the memory of man can fathom.

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.

There is no eloquence without a man behind it.

Men do not like to admit to even momentary imperfection. My husband forgot the code to turn off the alarm. When the police came, he wouldn't admit he'd forgotten the code... he turned himself in.

Men who consistently leave the toilet seat up secretly want women to get up to go the bathroom in the middle of the night and fall in.

A man may manifest and communicate his joy, but he should conceal and smother his grief as much as possible.

Gardens always mean something else, man absolutely uses one thing to say another.

The big painter is one who has something to say. He thus does not paint men, landscape or furniture, but an idea.

Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.

A man reacheth not to excellence with one language.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

Many a man's tongue broke his nose.

I don't believe man is woman's natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is.

The difference between working with a man and a woman... is immense.

Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature.

Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.

Using a metaphor in front of a man as unimaginative as Ridcully was like a red flag to a bu... was like putting something very annoying in front of someone who was annoyed by it.

Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.

The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an Orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them.

I feel the need of relations and friendship, of affection, of friendly intercourse.... I cannot miss these things without feeling, as does any other intelligent man, a void and a deep need.

The true speech of man is idiomatic, if not of the earth and sky, then at least of the saloon and the bleachers.

You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says.

Our public men are speaking every day on something, but they ain't saying anything.