communication Quotes

It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.

It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs, but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason, when the use of rational speech is... ...

Wit is well-bred insolence.

Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

Of the modes of persuasion furnished by the spoken word there are three kinds. The first kind depends on the personal character ofthe speaker; the second on putting the audience into a certain frame of mind; the third on the... ...

The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor.

A good style must, first of all, be clear. It must not be mean or above the dignity of the subject. It must be appropriate.

Persuasion is effected through the medium of the hearers, when they shall have been brought to a state of excitement under the influence of speech; for we do not, when influenced by pain or joy, or partiality or dislike, award... ...

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.

Maybe crying is a means of cleaning yourself out emotionally. Or maybe it's your last resort; the only way to express yourself when words fail, the same as when you were a baby and had no words.