Quotes About Communication

A gentleman is a man who is only rude when he intends to be.

It was a profound saying of Wilhelm Humboldt, that 'Man is man only by means of speech, but in order to invent speech he must be already man.'

The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation.

What men say: I'm sorry, honey. I was wrong. What men think: I'd love a Chipwich. I should go get one.

I don't have a lot to share with other men. My heart sinks when I get into a taxi and someone starts talking to me about football.

The language of my books has shaped me as a man.

The more wealth a man has, the louder his children talk.

May he die with no joy at his end, The man who won't be troubled To unlock the keys of his heart and make a friend.

A man never becomes an orator if he has anything to say.

Men sometimes think they hate flattery, but they hate only the manner of flattering.

It was useless to try to corner a man who told stories. It was like trying to drink all the water in a lake to get at a bright pebble on the bottom of it.

Often men believe women are the same, and once they figure what works for one woman they apply that same method to all the other women they are intimate with, and that's one of the major problems.

No man knoweth how another man maketh his love, for women tell not.

The world is full of bright men who know all the right things to say and who say them in the wrong place.

Say less than the other fellow and listen more than you talk; for when a man's listening he isn't telling on himself and he's flattering the fellow who is.

A tactful man can pull the stinger from a bee without getting stung.

A business man's conversation should be regulated by fewer and simpler rules than any other function of the human animal. They are: Have something to say. Say it. Stop talking.

A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to.

What a man is lies as certainly upon his countenance as in his heart, though none of his acquaintances may be able to read it. The very intercourse with him may have rendered it more difficult.

The most honest of men is the one who thinks and acts best, but the most powerful is the one who writes and speaks best.

If a man is really into you, nothing will stop him from being with you - including a fear of intimacy.

I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.

A weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously.

The manlier you are, the harder it is to understand what a woman wants: there is not a hint of female brain in you.