Quotes about Communication

When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more, nor less.

Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.

I'm very much afraid I didn't mean anything but nonsense. Still, you know, words mean more than we mean to express when we use them; so a whole book ought to mean a great deal more than the writer means. So, whatever good meanings are in the book, I'm glad to accept as the meaning of the book.

Alice thought to herself, 'Then there's no use in speaking.' The voices didn't join in this time, as she hadn't spoken, but to her great surprise, they all thought in chorus (I hope you understand what thinking in chorus means--for I must confess that I don't), 'Better say nothing at all. Language is worth a thousand pounds a word!

It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that, whatever you say to them, they always purr: If they would only purr for 'yes,' and mew for 'no,; or any rule of that sort, she had said, so that one could keep up a conversation! But how can you talk with a person if they always say the same thing?

I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and, what's more, I don't believe you do either!

When I use a word, Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.

When I make a word do a lot of work like that,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'I always pay it extra.

Two days wrong! sighed the Hatter. I told you butter wouldn't suit the works! he added, looking angrily at the March Hare. It was the best butter, the March Hare meekly replied.

I do," Alice hastily replied; "at least—at least I mean what I say—that's the same thing, you know.

The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.

She thought of herself, "I wish the creatures wouldn't be so easily offended!