Communication Quote by William Shakespeare

“If you want to know what he’s like — reverse what his opponents say.”

— Idries Shah

His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation…

— Sydney Smith

He who moves not forward, goes backward.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Conversation itself has rules, which is why the conversationalist who insists that others must speak his language is a boor. To have a voice…

— Terry Nardin

The more any one speaks of himself, the less he likes to hear another talked of.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

Speech is the voice of the heart.

— Anna Quindlen

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

At the end, one voice in opposition can slow things down, but cant make a difference.

— Anonymous

“Speak," he urged. "What about, sir?" "Whatever you like. I leave both the choice of subject and the manner of treating it entirely to…

— Charlotte Brontë

“Forward! Still forward!" said he. "When it shall be time, God will tell me, as he has told the others.”

— Alexandre Dumas

“But he was saying, '--and so I'm not going to make any speech--' In his old voice, his own voice. Or was that his…

— Robert Penn Warren