Skip to main content
Home
Topics
About the Editor
Contact
Home
Topics
About the Editor
Contact
Communication Quotes
139 Total
If you can ask the right question, you will find that it contains some or most of the right answer.
– Anonymous
If the Phone Doesn’t Ring, It’s Me
– Jimmy Buffett
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
– Scott Adams
I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.
– Tom Lehrer
I thought you brought the tickets!
– Couple overheard at the Charlotte Douglas International Airport
I took a course in speed reading and was able to read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It’s about Russia.
– Woody Allen
I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.
– William Blake
I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
– Robert McCloskey
I know what I say at times is not very diplomatic.
– Nikita Khrushchev
I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
– Robert McCloskey
I have made this letter longer because I lack the time to make it shorter.
– Blaise Pascal
I found out early in life that you never have to explain something you haven’t said.
– Calvin Coolidge
I am unanimously in support of what I said even if others disagree.
– Dan Quayle
How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things but how well we are understood.
– Andrew Grove
His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes of silence that make his conversation perfectly delightful.
– Syndey Smith
His thoughts were slow, His words were few, And never formed to glisten, But he was a joy to all his friends, You should have heard him LISTEN!
– Anonymous
He has occasional flashes of silence that make his conversation perfectly delightful.
– Anonymous
He talked with more claret than clarity.
– Susan Ertz
He talks like he is diagonally parked in a parallel universe.
– Anonymous
He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I ever met.
– Abraham Lincoln
God gave us two ears but only one mouth. Some people say that’s because he wanted us to spend twice as much time listening as talking. Others claim it’s because he knew listening was twice as hard as talking.
– Anonymous
Get in touch with the way the other person feels. Feelings are 55% body language, 38% tone and 7% words.
– Anonymous
Expression deepens impression.
– Anonymous
Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
– Bertrand Russell
Don’t knock the weather. If it didn’t change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn’t start a conversation.
– Kin Hubbard
Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Diplomacy is the language of international relations, which can say one thing that has two absolutely opposite meanings…
– Anonymous
Diplomacy is thinking twice before saying nothing.
– Anonymous
Dentopedalogy is the science of opening your mouth and putting your foot in it. I’ve been practicing it for years.
– Prince Philip
Definition of a bore: A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
– Ambrose Bierce
1
2
3
4
5