“In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise.”
The Bible (Proverbs 10:19)
SilenceWisdom
Communication Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · COMMUNICATION
Communication Quotes
Read 200 of the best communication quotes about listening, speaking, words, silence and conversation, from Shakespeare, Confucius, Mark Twain and more.
“God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.”
The Bible (Ecclesiastes 5:2)
HumilityBrevity
“The tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!”
The Bible (James 3:5)
Power Of WordsCaution
“Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.”
The Bible (Proverbs 12:25)
EncouragementKindness
“Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.”
William Shakespeare
ListeningWisdom
“Mend your speech a little, lest it may mar your fortunes.”
William Shakespeare
SpeakingConsequences
“Words without thoughts never to heaven go.”
William Shakespeare
SincerityWords
“Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue.”
William Shakespeare
SpeakingDelivery
“Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.”
William Shakespeare
ActionsIntegrity
“Talkers are no good doers.”
William Shakespeare
ActionsWords
“Speak low, if you speak love.”
William Shakespeare
LoveTone
“Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.”
Alexander Pope
BrevityWisdom
“True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.”
Alexander Pope
WritingPractice
“There is hardly a person who does not think more of what he wants to say than of his answer to what is said to him.”
François de La Rochefoucauld
ListeningConversation
“The speech belongs half to him who speaks and half to him who hears.”
Michel de Montaigne
ConversationListening
“I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.”
Blaise Pascal
WritingBrevity
“Discretion of speech is more than eloquence.”
Francis Bacon
DiscretionSpeaking
“Speech of a man's self ought to be seldom, and well chosen.”
Francis Bacon
HumilityConversation
“Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
PersuasionPower Of Words
“What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
ActionsCharacter
“It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak, and another to hear.”
Henry David Thoreau
TruthListening
“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter - 'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.”
Mark Twain
WordsWriting
“Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.”
George Eliot
SilenceFunny
“Speech is silvern, Silence is golden.”
Thomas Carlyle
SilenceWisdom
“Here comes the Orator! with his flood of words, and his drop of reason.”
Benjamin Franklin
SpeakingFunny