Quotes About Communication

It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

The little dogs and all,Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart, see, they bark at me.

It is the disease of not listening, the malady of not marking, that I am troubled withal.

Lord Polonius: What do you read, my lord? Hamlet: Words, words, words. Lord Polonius: What is the matter, my lord? Hamlet: Between who? Lord Polonius: I mean, the matter that you read, my lord.

Her voice was ever soft,Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman.

Holla your name to the reverberate hills,And make the babbling gossip of the airCry out, "Olivia!"

That in the captain's but a choleric word,Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.

Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle.

Hear you this Triton of the minnows? mark youHis absolute "shall"?

A gentleman, nurse, that loves to hear himself talk, and will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.

Yet the first bringer of unwelcome newsHath but a losing office, and his tongueSounds ever after as a sullen bell,Remember'd knolling a departing friend.

She speaks poniards, and every word stabs: if her breath were as terrible as her terminations, there were no living near her; she would infect to the north star.

Fie, fie upon her!There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip,Nay, her foot speaks; her wanton spirits look outAt every joint and motive of her body.

Women speak two languages — one of which is verbal.

It oft falls out,To have what we would have, we speak not what we mean.

My love'sMore richer than my tongue.

"Convey," the wise it call. "Steal" ' foh! a fico for the phrase!

Warble, child; make passionate my sense of hearing.

How hard it is for women to keep counsel!

He hath indeed better bettered expectation than you must expect of me to tell you how.

I understand a fury in your words,But not the words.

'Tis not my speeches that you do mislike,But 'tis my presence that doth trouble ye.Rancor will out.

A light wife doth make a heavy husband.