Communication Quotes

The legend went, unconfirmed and unaccredited, but still propagated. ~ Villette by Charlotte Bronte Silence is of different kinds, and breathes different meanings. ~ Villette by Charlotte Bronte But there are some things one takes for granted, supposes are mutually understood, and to which both parties may repeatedly refer without ever meaning the same thing. ~ Herland by Charlotte Gilman Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter's evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a note of intimacy seldom heard by day. ~ Night and Day by Virginia Woolf "I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull." ~ The Old Bachelor by William Congreve "A spoken word, Sir Abraham, is often of more value than volumes of written advice." ~ The Warden by Anthony Trollope "One evening call," said he, "is worth ten in the morning. It's all formality in the morning; real social talk never begins till after dinner." ~ The Warden by Anthony Trollope "Very foolish it is to use the wrong word to a stranger; for though the heart may be clean of offence, how is the stranger to know that? He is more like to search truth with a dagger." ~ Kim by Rudyard Kipling "Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are." ~ An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde Action is eloquence. ~ Coriolanus by William Shakespeare