Quotes About Communication

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

Short words are best, and old words when short are best of all.

It is hopeless for older people to tell younger ones – particularly their own children – that they have been through the same thing. Such information is no use at all! It bounces off one's own grief – or jealousy or distress. If we are all born the same we are also all born unique – we all go through torments nobody else has ever had.

Dwight again said: ' Caroline...' but this time as if all the cracks in his heart were widening.

He said in exasperation, "Goddamn it, you should know I'm not used to dealing with women! You search the earth to find some special secret feminine grievance to gnaw over for months on end and then produce it coolly on the mat to explain all the irrational hedging and dodging of an entire winter—

Perhaps," said Demelza, trembling all over. "Perhaps I'd ought to have asked for an introduction seeing it's so long since we met." "I don't doubt you have been well consoled in my absence," said Ross. "You were not concerned to come and see whether I was or no." "It seems that I was unwelcome when I did.

For if you wish to discover a man's true feelings, it is always best to provoke him.

Yes. Oh yes. I told him Caroline wanted to break the journey down here to be in Bodmin during the election, but Caroline has written him also, so it was no news. Like her to ask me to ask her uncle and then to write herself!" "She's only a girl. Be patient with her, Unwin. You'll need patience. She's temperamental and wayward. And there are others will think her a good catch beside yourself.

Quando gettò indietro la testa per bere, incontrò gli occhi di Demelza Carne, immensi e scuri, che lo stavano fissando dall'ultimo ripiano del mobile. Ross ruggì una risata che fece rientrare Prudie di corsa nella stanza.

Demelza did give him encouragement, of a sort. She was always exchanging asides with him, making another

You may speak the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, but it all depends how you speak it! Got to be tactful, persuasive, throw yourself on the mercy and indulgence of the law. Be humble and innocent, not stiff-backed and defiant.

Another and less elevated lesson she had learned in married life was that if she wheedled long enough and discreetly enough, she quite often got her own way in the end.

The awful catastrophe of their quarrel had evaporated in a commonplace.

Lui fece girare il frustino ancora e ancora tra le dita. «Sai che non ti odio. Buon Dio, dovresti sapere che...»

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

A good speech should be like a woman's skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.

From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked.

This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.

He spoke with more eloquence than wisdom.

No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt.