People love to talk but hate to listen. You can listen like a blank wall or like a splendid auditorium where every sound comes back fuller and richer.
Source: In Barnes & Noble Book of Quotations, by Robert I. Fitzhenry, 1987.
-- Alice Duer Miller, (Jul 28 1874-1942), US poet, author; She is best remembered for White Cliffs, 1941, a long narrative poem extolling Britain's resistance during WW II; also wrote I Have Loved England.