Quotes About Communication

As a general rule, confidences are made to persons below one socially rather than to those above. Much more readily than we can employ our superiors in secret affairs, we make use of our inferiors, who consequently become

A quotation in a speech, article, or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.

Los hombres que tienen tantas cosas que expresar en bellas obras soñadas durante mucho tiempo sienten cierto desprecio por la conversación, trato en el que el espíritu se rebaja al degradarse.

Por fin, Du Châtelet vio a Lucien y le dirigió uno de esos pequeños saludos, secos y fríos, con los cuales un hombre desacredita a otro dando a entender a las personas de mundo el ínfimo lugar que ocupa en la escala social.

Para ser traducida por la voz, así como para ser comprendida, la poesía exige una religiosa atención. Ha de crearse entre el lector y el auditorio una íntima complicidad, sin la cual no se produce la comunicación eléctrica de los sentimientos. Si falta esta comunión de las almas, el poeta se encuentra en la misma situación que un ángel que tratara de entonar un himno celestial en medio de las risas burlonas del infierno.

a word from an old man in the ears of the young ones is the same as the words of youth in the ears of an elder: a rattle which sense dodges understanding!

Ondan bir kaç sonra anlad?m ki bir kad?n?n susmas?nda gizli bir anlam vard?r, bol bol konu?mada ise nice dü?ünceler sakl?d?r.

Our bashful fears, our silent interjections, our blushes, as we met each other's eyes, were expressive with an eloquence, a boyish charm, which I have ceased to feel. One must remain young, no doubt, to understand youth.

In vain Pons tried to put in a word; La Cibot talked as the wind blows. Means of arresting steam-engines have been invented, but it would tax a mechanician's genius to discover any plan for stopping a portress' tongue.

You can't say what you think, if it is true, as an illustrious author says it is, that a man must think his words before he speaks his thoughts,

In other countries customs are very different. Englishmen pique themselves on never opening their lips; Germans are melancholy in a vehicle; Italians too wary to talk; Spaniards have no public conveyances; and Russians no roads.

There are two kinds of poets: those who feel and those who express themselves. The former are happier.

We talked together through that silence in the language of thought. Nothing is more rapturous than these mute conversations.

A lover speaks of nothing to a woman but that which exalts her; while a husband, although he may be a loving one, can never refrain from giving advice which always has the appearance of reprimand.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

When my dad needed a shirt ironed, he would yell downstairs to my mother, who would drop everything and iron his shirt.

He sprang to his feet, and cried roughly, 'I'll give you a handful of Yeses and Noes, Jessamine, and it'll keep you amused for the rest of the evening sorting them out, and sticking them on to your questions. I'm going out.

Huizen werden tot het Stille Volk gerekend. Muren hebben oren, maar geen tong. Huizen, bomen en doden zwijgen als het graf.

Why do grown-ups think they can talk over your head? When my mother and her friends gossip, they think I don't understand what they're saying, because they talk all around a subject instead of using plain words. Or they don't finish a sentence and then give each other meaningful looks. Well, it doesn't take a genius to fill in the blanks--I've learned how to figure out what goes in blanks from taking school tests.

My dad is going to have to help us with this one," Greta said. "He's home all the time now, anyway, so I'll show him how to do it." That was the first time Greta had ever spoken to me about her dad's situation, and I wasn't about to press her to say more. Instead, I said, "It's lucky he can help," which sounded so dumb that I turned red in the face.

You would fare far better with a lover who makes you laugh than one who makes you curse - and cry," he added, stepping to the cone of colored light. Beyond mortified, Phoebe dashed a quick hand across her damp eyes, hoping he might at least miss that much of her shame. "Sir, you should have made your presence known." One dark brow arched upward, "I believe I am doing just that.

You can tell a lot about a person's character over the phone. Not everything, but a lot. It's not always what they say but what they don't say that's the most telling,

His daughter was dishing out the classic cold shoulder treatment—and he was definitely being served.

To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak.