It may be right; but you are i' the wrong
To speak before your time.
Communication Quotes
Shakespeare leads, then Marshall McLuhan, Homer, Molière and Wittgenstein. Wittgenstein is the one to read for sources. The Tractatus (1922) has the limits of my language meaning the limits of my world, and The Blue Book (1931) reminds us that we do not use language according to strict rules, since it was not taught to us by means of strict rules. Samuel Johnson’s Lives of the English Poets (1779) has the shortest version of the page’s theme: language is the dress of thought.
Two entries carry flags. “The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place” is credited to George Bernard Shaw and marked misattributed. “I have often regretted my speech, never my silence” is credited to Publilius Syrus and disputed.
Most quoted on communication:
I will sit down now, but the time will come when you will hear me.
You follow words of the toga (language of the cultivated class).
It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
Know when to speake; for many times it brings
Danger to give the best advice to kings.
Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.
Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English.