Ardal O'Hanlon Quotes

A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.

You've got to find some way of saying it without saying it.

I'm always interested in how people use language to not say what they mean.

It was strange how you could never form any conclusion from what women said. It was not that they did not know what they were talking about, but you never drew the right conclusions.

You need not wonder at my knowing all human languages; for, to tell you the truth, I also understand all the secrets of human silence.

I see tendencies, I see body language.

Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink.

I think I'm being friendly with someone and I'll sit in their lap. They think I'm flirting with them.

Silence is a statement that is open to gross misinterpretation.

Everything in life is speaking in spite of it's apparent silence.

A woman will toss her head and a man will say, 'Oh she's trying to pick me up,' when in fact she's not doing that at all. So, women actually have to be a little careful with what they do, because men will pick up things that they didn't mean.

I don't think that the spoken words solve everything. Sometimes silence delivers truer feelings while the words can distort the meaning in some situations.

I think there's a great deal of information you can convey with looks or silence.

The danger is you never know if people are actually saying what they mean. I've learned you never know how someone will react.

No matter what you say in carefully chosen sentences, girls will detect both the spoken and unspoken messages.

Sometimes our passion will motivate us to say things that can easily be misunderstood.

The only safety is in the middle of total misunderstanding and deception.

A blush is no language; only a dubious flag - signal which may mean either of two contradictories

Life's too slippery for books, Clarice; anger appears as lust, lupus presents as hives.

Auguries are oft subtle...and dangerous - thou may deem they mean one thing when they mean something else altogether.

Those who don't say what they mean will live and die by their own sword.

And yet the motives of women are so inscrutable. You remember the woman at Margate whom I suspected for the same reason. No powder on her nose - that proved to be the correct solution. How can you build on such a quicksand? Their most trivial action may mean volumes, or their most extraordinary conduct may depend upon a hairpin or a curling tongs.

I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer

So much of language is unspoken. So much of language is compromised of looks and gestures and sounds that are not words. People are ignorant of the vast complexity of their own communication.

Humans said one thing with their bodies and another with their mouths and everyone had to spend time and energy figuring out what they really meant. And once you did understand them, the Humans got angry and acted as though you had stolen thoughts from their minds.