Quotes About Communication

There is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community

Es perfectamente monstruoso -dijo por fin- la costumbre que tiene la gente hoy día de hablar a espaldas de uno y decir de él cosas que son completa y absolutamente ciertas.

Yes Harry I believe that is true. I cannot help telling you things. You have a curious influence over me. If I ever did a crime I would come and confess it to you. You would understand me.

Women are wonderfully practical,' murmured Lord Henry, 'much more practical than we are. In situations of that kind we often forget to say anything about marriage, and they always remind us.

the value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.

Mere words.. Was there anything so real as words?

The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets she took him.

You don't seem to realise, that in married life three is company and two is none.

You seem to forget that I am married, and the one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties. I never know where my wife is, and my wife never knows what I am doing. When we meet—we do meet occasionally, when we dine out together, or go down to the Duke's—we tell each other the most absurd stories with the most serious faces.

I am always saying what I shouldn't say; in fact, I usually say what I really think--a great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.

The value of an idea has nothing to do with the honesty of the man expressing it.

Was there anything so real as words?

If the caveman had known how to laugh, history would have been different.

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out. Whatever influence I ever had over mamma, I lost at the age of three.

The birds did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one side, and looked wise, which is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.

By the way, is there any difference between 'grey' and 'gray'? I believe there is, but I don't know what it is. In one place in the poem Smithers suggests 'gray'. In others he leaves 'grey'. Perhaps he is seeing red. I believe they are sympathetic colours in spectroscope investigations.

Our husbands would really forget our existence if we didn't nag at them from time to time, just to remind them that we have a perfect legal right to do so.

I don't want to see him alone. He says things that annoy me. He gives me good advice.

Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art. Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art.

As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others.

Palabras! ¡Simples palabras! ¡Qué terribles eran! ¡Cuán claras, vívidas y crueles! Parece que uno no puede escaparse de ellas. ¡Y, sin embargo, qué magia sutil contienen! Parecen conferir una forma plástica a las cosas informes y tienen una música propia, tan dulce como la del violín o la del laúd. ¡Simples palabras! ¿Hay algo más real que las palabras?

Lots of people act well, but very few people talk well, which shows that talking is much the more difficult thing of the two, and much the finer thing also.

In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public.  Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.