4 Thomas Carlyle Quotes on Communication

Thomas Carlyle quotes on communication

1. Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

28. Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

45. Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the Devil; for which reason I have, long since, as good as renounced it.

51. As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden- 'Speech is silvern, Silence is golden'; or, as I might rather express it: speech is of time, silence is of eternity.