Communication Quote by Josephine Tey

Speech, after all, is in some measure an expression of character, and flexibility in its use is a good way to tell your friends…

— Jacques Barzun

We had lost the art of communication - but not, alas, the gift of speech.

— Gordon Brown

It is such a great fault to talk too much that, in business and conversation, if what is good is also brief, it is…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

“Good communication has just a little to do with eloquence. It's character that makes it more successful. Harsh words nicely articulated are sharp enough…

— Israelmore Ayivor

“I was learning that the best conversations consisted of keeping quiet and listening, and speaking, when one spoke at all, in words of a…

— Alan Bradley

Everyone likes to talk shop, which is the most interesting talk in the world, in the beginning.

— Carolyn Heilbrun

But a book suggests conversation: one person is speaking to another, and audible sound is, or should be, natural to that exchange. So I…

— Teju Cole

I used to have this slight speech implement and couldn't remember things before I took the Sam Carnegie course.

— Bill Peterson

That's the last time I work with somebody with a speech impediment!

— Daffy Duck

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the…

— Emile M. Cioran

Speak only endearing speech, speech that is welcomed. Speech, when it brings no evil to others, is pleasant.

— Gautama Buddha

When cafe life thrives, talk is a shared limberness of the mind that improves appetite for conversation: an adequate sentence maker is then made…

— Vivian Gornick