Communication Quote by Ambrose Bierce

“I think the best grace of wit will shortly turn into silence, and discourse grow commendable in none only but parrots.”

— Shakespear

Among a man's many good possessions, A good command of speech has no equal. Prosperity and ruin issue from the power of the tongue.…

— Thiruvalluvar

When you are with a landscape or a human being where there is no need to speak, but simply to listen, to perceive, to…

— Terry Tempest Williams

A poet, to whom no one cruel or imposing listens, Disdained by senates, whispers to your dust.

— Carolyn Kizer

To speak...means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.

— Frantz Fanon

Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.

— Robert South

Speech is the index of the mind.

— Seneca the Younger

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an…

— Benjamin Disraeli

Speech is the golden harvest that followeth the flowering of thought.

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.

— Sophocles

The ability to speak is a short cut to distinction. It puts a man in the limelight, raises him head and shoulders above the…

— Lowell Thomas