Communication Quote by Samuel Johnson

Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance.

— Mark Twain

“That our words are, as a general rule, filled by the people to whom we address them with a meaning which those people desire…

— Marcel Proust

“No language as depending on arbitrary use and custom can ever be permanently the same, but will always be in a mutable and fluctuating…

— Benjamin Martin

Proper words in proper places make the true definiton of style.

— Jonathan Swift

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

— Francis Bacon

A laxity pervades the popular use of words.

— Charles Lamb

If words are doing their job, then their novelty will not be the most noticeable thing about them.

— Erin McKean

Custom is the law of one description of fools, and fashion of another; but the two parties often clash--for precedent is the legislator of…

— Charles Caleb Colton

There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public…

— Agnes Repplier

“Perhaps the most powerful and appealing aspect of another's words, however, is simply their convenience. Whether distilled in the briefest apophthegm, or spread out…

— Jasper Siegel Seneschal

Our debt to tradition through reading and conversation is so massive, our protest so rare and insignificant-and this commonly on the ground of other…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ours is the age of substitutes: Instead of language we have jargon; instead of principles, slogans; and instead of genuine ideas, bright suggestions.

— Eric Bentley