- Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer. Be what you say; and, within the rules of prudence, say what you are.
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–– Alford
- I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
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–– Anonymous
- The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
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–– Anonymous
- There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say –– unless you insist on saying it.
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–– Anonymous
- The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
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–– Josh Billings
- The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.
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–– Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
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–– Calvin Coolidge
- Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
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–– Gandhi
- Silence is argument carried out by other means.
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–– Ernesto "Che" Guevara
- When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
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–– Ernest Hemingway
- The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
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–– Kin Hubbard
- Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
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–– Aldous Huxley
- Value your words. Each one may be the last.
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–– Stanislaw J. Lec
- I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
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–– Tom Lehrer
- Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
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–– Abraham Lincoln
- Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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–– Abraham Lincoln
- Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
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–– Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
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–– Mignon McLaughlin
- He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
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–– John Stuart Mill
- We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
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–– John Stuart Mill
- Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
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–– Mother Teresa
- It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
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–– Tom Robbins
- The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
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–– George Bernard Shaw
- He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
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–– Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay
- If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
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–– James McNeill Whistler
- Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will.
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–– Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
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