Discourse

Discourse

Discourse (Latin: discursus, “running to and fro”) is the term that describes written and spoken communications; its denotations include:

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Famous quotes containing the word discourse:

    “Moralists love to discourse on the hollowness of success; about the hollowness of failure they are silent.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “Almost one half of our time is spent in telling and hearing evil of one another ... and every hour brings forth something strange and terrible to fill up our discourse and our astonishment.”
    —Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)

    “The mention of one apartment in a building naturally introduces an enquiry or discourse concerning the others: and if we think of a wound, we can scarcely forbear reflecting on the pain which follows it.”
    —David Hume (1711–1776)