Benjamin Disraeli Quotes on Communication
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Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth.
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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.
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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.
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There is no wisdom like frankness.
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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.
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There is no index of character so sure as the voice.
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Without tact you can learn nothing.
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'Diplomacy is the art of telling someone to go to hell and making them anticipate the trip.'
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Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.
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I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.
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I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar.
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Many thanks: I shall lose no time in reading it.
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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.