Quotes about Communication

I think celebrities have an obligation to the public to not just sing or act.

The words we speak have a direct and definite effect upon our thoughts. Thoughts create words, for words are the vehicles of ideas. But words also affect thoughts and help to condition if not to create attitudes. In fact, what often passes for thinking starts with talk.

When I am tempted to criticize I will bite on my tongue; when I am moved to praise I will shout from the roofs. Is

You teach people how to treat you.

The enjoyment comes from knowing the receiver understands the spirit of the gift.

Your life is always speaking to (for) you.

Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.

If one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

True friends stab you in the front

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. And that makes me quite nervous.

The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.