A Dictionary of Quotations about Communication

Sadly, the tepid cover design, turgid title, and text‐bookish appearance do this excellent book no favours. Thinking it to be on “communications” as in “theory of”, or as in “ICT”, I left this volume languishing until I felt able to cope with it. But what joy I found inside the anaemic covers! “Every braggart shall be found an ass”; “Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictious word, preserves contact ‐ it is silence which isolates!”; “True disputants are like true sportsmen; their whole delight is in the pursuit”; “No student knows his subject; the most he knows...