Diction Quote by Moliere

We always speak well when we manage to be understood.

— Moliere

If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.

— Moliere

If we are understood, more words are unnecessary; if we are not likely to be understood, they are useless.

— Charles II of England

Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease.

— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

The first rule for speaking well is to think well.

— Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles

The whole end of speech is to be understood.

— Confucius

It seems to me, though, that you always understand very well what I can't say very well. Trouble is I end up being even…

— Haruki Murakami

Regardless of what we understand or do not understand, we are what we speak. That's how we are known.

— Harbhajan Singh Yogi

I think I say things nicely and my whole goal is to be understood and that includes by people who don't understand me.

— Jen Kirkman

I guess my diction just isn't very good.

— Elizabeth Fraser

The manner of your speaking is full as important as the matter, as more people have ears to be tickled than understandings to judge.

— Lord Chesterfield

The fact that you are willing to say, 'I do not understand, and it is fine,' is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

— Wayne Dyer