13 Benjamin Disraeli Quotes on Communication

Benjamin Disraeli quotes on communication

79. Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth.

104. A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.

130. How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, who will unmask his mind, unbutton his brains, and pour forth in careless and picturesque phrase all the results of his studies and observation; his knowledge of men, books, and nature. On the contrary, if a man has by any chance an original idea, he hoards it as if it were old gold; and rather avoids the subject with which he is most conversant, from fear that you may appropriate his best thoughts.

144. There is no wisdom like frankness.

148. Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.

152. There is no index of character so sure as the voice.

178. Without tact you can learn nothing.

185. 'Diplomacy is the art of telling someone to go to hell and making them anticipate the trip.'

189. Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.

200. I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

201. I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar.

206. Many thanks: I shall lose no time in reading it.

258. Whenever we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.