Quotes about Communication

Leaning over this parapet I see far out a waste of water. A fin turns. This bare visual impression is unattached to any line of reason, it springs up as one might see the fin of a porpoise on the horizon. Visual impressions often communicate thus briefly statements that we shall in time come to uncover and coax into words.

This was now revealed to Septimus; the message hidden in the beauty of words. The secret signal which one generation passes, under disguise, to the next is loathing, hatred, despair.

It passed through his mind that if he missed this chance of talking to Katharine, he would have to face an enraged ghost, when he was alone in his room again, demanding an explanation of his cowardly indecision. It was better, on the whole, to risk present discomfiture than to waste an evening bandying excuses and constructing impossible scenes with this uncompromising section of himself.

God had not turned a deaf ear. He had been waiting for her to listen, as He always did.

We never argue anymore. And when we do, it never lasts more than a week or two.

Never close your lips to those whom you have opened your heart.

Tongue; well that's a wery good thing when it an't a woman's.

An idea, like a ghost (according to the common notion of ghosts), must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

You are good enough to say so, as a fashion of speech; but, I don't mean any fashion of speech. Indeed, when I say I wish we might be friends, I scarcely mean quite that, either.

Evil communications corrupt good manners.