#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.”

“Speak low, if you speak love.”

“Hear the meaning within the word.”

“An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.”

“Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.”

“Very good orators, when they are out, they will spit; and for lovers, lacking--God warn us!--matter, the cleanliest shift is to kiss.”

“The heart hath treble wrongWhen it is barr'd the aidance of the tongue.”

“it is not enough to speak, but to speak truee”

“More matter with less art.”

“I wonder that you will still be talking. Nobody marks you.”

“Men of few words are the best men." (3.2.41)”

“Here comes Monseiur Le Beau. Rosalind: With his mouth full of news. Celia: Which he will put on us, as pigeons feed their young. Rosalind: Then shall we be news-crammed. Celia: All the better; we shall be the more marketable.”

“I will speak daggers to her, but use none.”

“Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.”

“He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.”

“[S]ince brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.”

“The Dear father Would with his daughter speak, commands her service; Are they inform'd of this?”

“Delivers in such apt and gracious words that aged ears play truant at his tales; And younger hearings are quite ravished; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.”

“I pray thee cease thy counsel,Which falls into mine ears as profitless as water in a sieve.”

“Report me and my cause aright.”

“Thou dost conspire against thy friend, Iago,If thou but think'st him wronged, and mak'st his earA stranger to thy thoughts.”

“A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his companions by every word. Every opinion reacts on him who utters it. It is a threadball thrown at a mark, but the other end remains on the thrower”

“A man is reputed to have thought and eloquence; he cannot, for all that, say a word to his cousin or his uncle. They accuse his silence with as much reason as they would blame the insignificance of a dial in the shade. In the sun it will mark the hour. Among those who enjoy his thought, he will regain his tongue.”

“Some eyes threaten like a loaded and levelled pistol, and others are as insulting as hissing or kicking; some have no more expression than blueberries, while others are as deep as a well which you can fall into.”

“A man cannot speak but he judges himself”

“The orator is thereby an orator that keeps his feet ever on a fact.”