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Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.
-Frank Moore Colby
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Two monologues do not make a dialogue.
-Jeff Daly
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There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication. Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another, especially if it be somewhat complicated, and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing.
-John Dewey
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It's vital the monarchy keeps in touch with the people. It's what I try and do.
-Princess of Wales Diana
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Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.
-Charles Dickens
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The really important things are said over cocktails and are never done.
-Peter Drucker
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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot
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When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die.
-E. M. Forster
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Clearly spoken, Mr. Fogg; you explain English by Greek.
-Benjamin Franklin
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Something there is that doesn't love a wall, and wants it down.
-Robert Frost
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Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
-Robert Frost
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No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.
-Johann von Goethe
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it; for error is always talkative.
-Oliver Goldsmith
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Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.
-Germaine Greer
The Female Eunuch 1971, Security
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I've noticed two things about men who get big salaries. They are almost invariably men who, in conversation or in conference, are adaptable. They quickly get the other fellow's view. They are more eager to do this than to express their own ideas. Also, they state their own point of view convincingly.
-John Hallock
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The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively, but says nothing.
-Henry S. Haskins
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There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions.
-Ernest Hello
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To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.
-Eric Hoffer
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The art of communication is the language of leadership.
-James C. Humes
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A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive shortwave facilities scattered about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.
-Robert Maynard Hutchins
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The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use.
-Washington Irving
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Communication across the revolutionary divide is inevitably partial.
-Thomas S. Kuhn
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I wish people that have trouble communicating would just shut up!
-Tom Lehrer
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I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-Tom Lehrer
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Books about Communication
