Communication Quotes by William Shakespeare

Listen to many, speak to a few.

— William Shakespeare

Brevity is the soul of wit.

— William Shakespeare

The earth has music for those that listen.

— William Shakespeare

A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear.

— William Shakespeare

Speak comfortable words.

— William Shakespeare

First Witch He knows thy thought: Hear his speech, but say thou nought.

— William Shakespeare

More of your conversation would infect my brain.

— William Shakespeare

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

— William Shakespeare

Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue.

— William Shakespeare

Rude am I in my speech, And little blessed with the soft phrase of peace.

— William Shakespeare

“Mend your speech a little, Lest you may mar your fortunes.”

— William Shakespeare

Be checked for silence, But never taxed for speech.

— William Shakespeare

It is the disease of not listening… that I am troubled with.

— William Shakespeare

Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak whispers the o'er-fraught heart, and bids it break.

— William Shakespeare

Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.

— William Shakespeare

Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounce it to you, trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as…

— William Shakespeare

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none; be able for thine enemy rather in power than use; and keep thy…

— William Shakespeare

'Tis not to make me jealous To say my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company, Is free of speech, sings, plays,…

— William Shakespeare

His forward voice now is to speak well of his friend. His backward voice is to utter foul speeches and to detract.

— William Shakespeare

Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy Rather in power than use; and keep thy…

— William Shakespeare

My language! heavens!I am the best of them that speak this speech. Were I but where 'tis spoken.

— William Shakespeare

Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you-trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many…

— William Shakespeare

“What’s Hecuba to him or he to Hecuba That he should weep for her? What would he do Had he the motive…

— William Shakespeare

“Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue. But if you mouth it, as…

— William Shakespeare

They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.

— William Shakespeare

For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men’s blood: I…

— William Shakespeare