Quotes About Communication

I have a great many opinions about writing, but I'm afraid that all of them are unprintable

Current among men, Like coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.

In after-dinner talk,Across the walnuts and the wine.

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

I sometimes hold it half a sinTo put in words the grief I feel;For words, like Nature, half revealAnd half conceal the Soul within.

Qu'importe de quoi parlent les lévres, lorsqu´e on écoute les coeurs se répondre,

It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense.

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

Nobody has a right to speak more clearly than he thinks.

It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.

Philosophy is an attempt to express the infinity of the universe in terms of the limitations of language.

There are deeper types of symbolism, in a sense artificial, and yet such that we could not get on without them. Language, written or spoken, is such a symbolism.

Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.

Laughter is the orgasm of the face".

He drew into his shell a little, giving the merest sketch of what had happened. But he listened closely while these two practical old friends supplied hm with infomration in the gossiping way that human nature loves.

The Wise are silent, the Foolish speak, and children are thus led astray.

What one thinks finds expression in words, and what one says, happens.

For words divide and rend;But silence is most noble till the end.

A story that needs to have words said about it, is a story that does not contain all its own right words. -- Introduction to Varley's "Persistence Of Vision" collection

Tongue is a beast, if it is let loose, it devours.

A wise man first thinks and then speaks and a fool speaks first and then thinks.

He who is greedy is disgraced; he who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated; he who has no control over his tongue will often have to face discomfort.