Affected Quote by Eric Linklater

“So hollow and ineffectual, for the most part, is our ordinary conversation. Surface meets surface. When our life ceases to be inward and private,…

— Henry David Thoreau

As paredes tem ouvidos. (Portuguese: The walls have ears.)

— Madeleine L'Engle

Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood.

— Joseph Addison

Walls have ears. Doors have eyes. Trees have voices. Beasts tell lies. Beware the rain. Beware the snow. Beware the man You think you…

— Catherine Fisher

“A hand stole around her mouth, silencing her, then his lips parting her tumbled hair: “The walls have ears.” She blinked, and for the…

— V.S. Carnes

“Walls have ears.”

— Julie Berry

I like to think that the best poetry is or involves a contest between ordinary conversation and ritual.

— Miller Williams

There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit

— Stephen Leacock

I don't know anything that gives me greater pleasure, or profit either, than talking or listening to philosophy. But when it comes to ordinary…

— Plato

It would scarcely be acceptable, for example, to ask in the course of an ordinary conversation what our society holds to be the purpose…

— Alain de Botton

The walls have ears, ears that hear each little sound you make every time you stamp, throw a lamp.

— Elvis Presley

“The walls have ears, and the ears have beautiful earrings.”

— Paul-Eerik Rummo