Communication Quotes

Polite conversation is rarely either.

Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure.

It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere.

Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow.

I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.

Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.

He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.

Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.