Communication Quote by Sydney Smith

He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.

— Nikhil Saluja

He's never quite got the trick of conversation, tending to hear in dissenting views, however mild, a kind of affront, an invitation to mortal…

— Ian Mcewan

I have sometimes thought that his bursts of imaginative talk were fatal to his poetic gift. He squandered too much in the heat of…

— Willa Cather

“Soon he essentially stopped talking. "I am retreating into silence as a defensive mode," he mentioned. Eventually, he was down to uttering just five…

— Michael Finkel

“The effort of explaining, even of expressing himself, had become, with the years, more and more terrifying to him. Whether from laziness or from…

— François Mauriac

He says a million things without saying a word. I have never heard a more eloquent silence.

— Laurie Halse Anderson

The man I meet with is not often so instructive as the silence he breaks.

— Henry David Thoreau

“He maintained his new fastidiousness without interruption, added to it an unwonted sparkle of eye and crispness of speech, and began little by little…

— H.P. Lovecraft

He [Wladimir Klitschko] likes silence when he fights because it gives him time and room to think. He doesn't like things to get chaotic…

— Tyson Fury

He who talks much cannot talk well.

— Carlo Goldoni

If you ask him: "What is silence?" he will answer, "It is the Great Mystery! The holy silence is His voice!" If you ask:…

— Charles Alexander Eastman

“Occasionally, out of curiosity or goodwill, someone would speak to him, but his response would be so off the mark that they would disappear…

— Shion Miura