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:

    “The first duty of a lecturer—to hand you after an hour’s discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantlepiece for ever.”
    —Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

    “The true mirror of our discourse is the course of our lives.”
    —Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

    “Hath homely age th’ alluring beauty took
    From my poor cheek? Then he hath wasted it.
    Are my discourses dull? Barren my wit?
    If voluble and sharp discourse be marred,
    Unkindness blunts it more than marble hard.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)