Communication Quotes

"The silence often of pure innocence
Persuades when speaking fails." ~ The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare "We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words." ~ Black Beauty by Anna Sewell "My idea of an agreeable person," said Hugo Bohun, "is a person who agrees with me." ~ Lothair by Benjamin Disraeli Indeed, he would sometimes remark, when a man fell into his anecdotage, it was a sign for him to retire from the world. ~ Lothair by Benjamin Disraeli "There is no wisdom like frankness." ~ Sybil by Benjamin Disraeli "And people laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?" ~ Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery I was discreet. I tried to curb my own emotions and to discourage hers. For my own part I fear that I betrayed myself, for the eye becomes more eloquent when the tongue is silent. ~ The Adventures of Gerard by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Like many men who override the opinions of others, Challenger was exceedingly sensitive when anyone took a liberty with his own ~ The Land of Mist by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle It was admitted on all sides that Challenger's opening half-hour was a magnificent display of oratory and argument. His deep organ voice -- such a voice as only a man with a fifty-inch chest can produce -- rose and fell in a perfect cadence which enchanted his audience. ~ The Land of Mist by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle People who are in earnest are always interesting, whether you agree with them or not. ~ The Land of Mist by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle