Quotes About Communication

After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means.

The best argument is that which seems merely an explanation.

I was born to argue... I don't know why. I mean, from arguing with my teachers and, on occasions, my parents. I think I've mastered the art of argument at a fairly young age.

Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.

Rhetoric is nothing but reason well dressed and argument put in order.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

What I like about music is its ability to be convincing, to carry an argument through successfully to the finish, though the terms of the argument remain unknown quantities.

No argument can persuade me to like oysters if I do not like them. In other words, the disturbing thing about matters of taste is that they are not communicable.

It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.

Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable.

Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty.

Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.

Arguing with the girlfriend. Mid argument she says "Were you on Monday night Raw last night?" I had no comeback.

A woman at the rear of the room raised her hand. I was focused on the argument now and made a minor social error, which I quickly corrected. "The fat woman-overweight woman-at the back?"

True wisdom, laboring to expound, heareth others readily; False wisdom, sturdy to deny, closeth up her mind to argument.

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

The only thing worse than being on the wrong side of an argument is to be on the right side with no one listening.

If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument.

You can not have an argument with a fully conscious person.

Tears are not arguments.

Nothing is more certain than much of the force; as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.

Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.

The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible.