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Quotes About Communication

AMBER I'll be black in a minute. Mike Huh?!? AMBER I meant back! Freaking autocorrect. As far as I know, I won't be black anytime soon. Lol!
~ Oscar Peterson
Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else
~ Oscar Wilde
Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
~ Oscar Wilde
Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humour in the woman.
~ Oscar Wilde
The difference between journalism and literature is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
~ Oscar Wilde
An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship
~ Oscar Wilde
The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.
~ Oscar Wilde
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
~ Oscar Wilde
Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.
~ Oscar Wilde
I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.
~ Oscar Wilde
The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
~ Oscar Wilde
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.
~ Oscar Wilde
If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.
~ Oscar Wilde
In married life three is company and two none.
~ Oscar Wilde
He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.
~ Oscar Wilde
If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
~ Oscar Wilde
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
~ Oscar Wilde
Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
~ Oscar Wilde
Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.
~ Oscar Wilde
Women are never disarmed by compliments; men always are.
~ Oscar Wilde
Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude.
~ Oscar Wilde
The only charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception necessary for both parties.
~ Oscar Wilde
A man may betray Jesus Christ by speaking too many words, and he may betray him through keeping his mouth shut.
~ Oswald Chambers
Why are we so terrified for God to speak to us? It is because we know that when God speaks we must either do what He asks or tell Him we will not obey.
~ Oswald Chambers