Communication Quote by Mark Twain

There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of…

— Mark Twain

Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.

— Homer

“More and more frequently, we will find ourselves in the position of the lower animals—with a mental apparatus that is unequipped to deal thoroughly…

— Robert B. Cialdini

The facts which have caused us to believe in the dominance of the pleasure principle in mental life also find expression in the hypothesis…

— Sigmund Freud

“More and more frequently, we will find ourselves in the position of the lower animals—with a mental apparatus that is unequipped to deal thoroughly…

— Joseph Heath

The best and most telling speech is not the actual impromptu one but the counterfeit of it.

— Mark Twain

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

— Mark Twain

Written things are not for speech; their form is literary; they are stiff, inflexible, and will not lend themselves to happy and effective delivery…

— Mark Twain

English humor is hard to appreciate, though, unless you are trained to it. The English papers, in reporting my speeches, always put 'laughter' in…

— Mark Twain

An oyster, that marvel of delicacy, that concentration of sapid excellence, that mouthful bwefore all other mouthfuls, who first had faith to believe it,…

— Henry Ward Beecher

American traditions and the American ethic require us to be truthful, but the most important reason is that truth is the best propaganda and…

— Edward R. Murrow

Also, and this may sound naïve, but since my early days in journalism, I've felt that getting as close as possible to truth, revealing…

— Sheri Fink