Mark Twain Quotes

Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.

How I say it has as much of an impact on what people think of me as what I say.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Talking and eloquence are not the same.

Everyone breathes in air, but it's a wise person who knows when to use that air to speak and when to exhale in silence.

Everyone knows how to talk, and no one knows what to say.

Sometimes, to be silent is to be most eloquent.

the modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things.

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.

I am not eloquent.

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

The right word fitly spoken is a precious rarity.

Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly each day.

If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.

Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

You say it best, when you say nothing at all.

There is a time to be quiet and a time to talk.

The rhetoric is the key to the character. It's the verbal music of the piece.

Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.

Words become deeds and then meet needs.

He who wants to persuade should put his trust, not in the right argument, but in the right word.