Quotes about Communication

It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.

How clever are you, my dear! You never mean a single word you say!

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.

I don't like compliments and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.

MRS ALLONBY I adore them. The clever people never listen, and the stupid people never talk. HESTER I think the stupid people talk a great deal. MRS ALLONBY Ah, I never listen!

And when wind and winter harden All the loveless land, It will whisper of the garden, You will understand.

Signs and symbols rule the world, not words nor laws.

If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things.

If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things. If language be not in accordance with the truth of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success. When affairs cannot be carried on to success, proprieties and music do not flourish.

Not to talk with people although they can be talked with is to waste people. To talk with people although they can't be talked with is to waste words. A man of understanding does not waste people, but he also does not waste words.

He tried to read her heart in her handclasp but he knew nothing.

If we were going to die would you tell me? I dont know. We're not going to die.