Tony Benn - Brendan Francis - William Shakespeare - Ernest Hemingway - Lord Byron - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Twins 1988 - Jerome K Jerome - Robert Frost -
I’ve got four lovely children, ten lovely grandchildren, and I left parliament to devote more time to politics, and I think that what is really going on in Britain is a growing sense of alienation. People don’t feel anyone listens to them. Tony Benn
A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him. Brendan Francis
It is the disease of not listening, the malady of not marking, that I am troubled withal. William Shakespeare, II Henry IV I ii 139
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. Ernest Hemingway
But yet she listen’d – ’tis enough –
Who listens once will listen twice;
Her heart, be sure, is not of ice,
And one refusal no rebuff. Lord Byron, Mazeppa st6
Listen, every one
That listen may, unto a tale
That’s merrier than the nightingale. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Tales of a Wayside Inn III: The Sicilian’s Tale, Interlude Before Monk of Casal-Maggiore
I don’t know why I listen to people. All my life, I’m always listening to people. Twins 1988 starring Arnold Schwarzenegger & Danny DeVito & Kelly Preston & Chloe Webb & Bonnie Bartlett & David Caruso & Trey Wilson & Marvin J McIntyre & Marshall Bell & Tony Jay et al, director Ivan Reitman, Vince
They [dogs] never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an appearance of being interested in the conversation. Jerome K Jerome
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. Robert Frost