Quotes about Communication

I avoided writers very carefully because they can perpetuate trouble as no one else can.

They talked aimlessly back and forth, each speaking for the other.

It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.

Talk English to me, Tommy. Parlez francais avec moi, Nicole. But the meanings are different-- in French you can be heroic and gallant with dignity, and you know it. But in English you can't be heroic and gallant without being a little absurd, and you know that too.

They had never been closer in their month of love, nor communicated more profoundly one with another

If you write me letters, please let them be natural ones. 

All thought usually reached the public after thirty years in some such form: The man on the street heard the conclusions of some dead genius through someone else's clever paradoxes and didactic epigrams.

I returned rather feebly to the subject of her daughter. 'I suppose she talks, she eats, and everything.

To this husband of hers she made the last concession of married life, which is more complete, more irrevocable, than the first—she listened to him. She told herself that the years had brought her tolerance—actually they had slain what measure she had ever possessed of moral courage. She

She danced exceptionally well, drew cleverly but hastily, and had a startling facility with words, which she used only in love letters.

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

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.