I’ve begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.
You can’t make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can’t last.
When a woman says she will obey you, of her own will, it is time to sleep lightly and watch your back.
Victory does not come to men who listen to their fears.
They who listen to only one bell hear only one sound.[Qui n’entend qu’une cloche n’a qu’un son, disaient les gens sages.]
There’s none so blind as those who will not listen.
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
None of them really wanted to listen to someone else’s story anyway; they only wanted to tell their own.
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
Menfolks listens to somebody because of what he says. Women don’t. They don’t care what he said. They listens because of what he is.
It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilised.
