Communication Quotes

“I am not bound to please thee with my answer.”

“Things are often spoke and seldom meant.”

“Honest plain words best pierce the ear of grief.”

“Foul words is but foul wind, and foul wind is but foul breath, and foul breath is noisome; therefore I will depart unkissed.”

“But Kate, dost thou understand thus much English? Canst thou love me?" Catherine: "I cannot tell." Henry: "Can any of your neighbours tell, Kate? I'll ask them.”

“Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.”

“Give to a gracious message An host of tongues, but let ill tidings tell Themselves when they be felt.”

“Dispute not with her: she is lunatic.”

“Fie, fie, how frantically I square my talk!”

“If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect. We are advertis'd by our loving friends.”

“The cheekIs apter than the tongue to tell an errand.”

“You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse”

“The nature of bad news affects the teller.”

“Speak on, but be not over-tedious.”

“Go, write it in a martial hand; be curst and brief; it is no matter how witty, so it be eloquent and fun of invention: taunt him with the licence of ink: if thou thou'st him some thrice, it shall not be amiss; and as many lies as will lie in thy shee.”

“I cannot speak your england.”

“Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue.”

“A jest's prosperity lies in the ear”

“I praise God for you, sir: your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, and strange with-out heresy.”

“How much an ill word may empoison liking!”

“Ay, is it not a language I speak?”

“Sweet Beatrice, wouldst thou come when I called thee? BEATRICE Yea, signior, and depart when you bid me. BENEDICK O, stay but till then! BEATRICE 'Then' is spoken; fare you well now... (Much Ado About Nothing)”

“The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.”

“I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say - I love you”

“This rudeness is a sauce to his good wit, Which gives men stomach to digest his words With better appetite.”