Saying What We Think Gives Us A Wider Conversational Range Than Saying What We Know.
- Cullen Hightower
Anecdotes And Maxims Are Rich Treasures To The Man Of The World, For He Knows How To Introduce The Former At Fit Place In Conversation.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You Can Discover More About A Person In An Hour Of Play Than In A Year Of Conversation.
- Plato
Spoken Words Evaporated Into The Air Just As Easily As Burned Letters, But The Sound Of Them Seemed Immortal. It Was As If A Word Spoken Could Not Be Destroyed.
- Laura Moncur
Conversation Is An Art In Which A Man Has All Mankind For His Competitors, For It Is That Which All Are Practising Every Day While They Live.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Conversation Is Food For The Soul.
- Mexican Proverb
I Don’t Know How To Have Casual Conversation. You Think You’re Talking About One Thing, And Either You Are And It’s Incredibly Boring, Or You’re Not Because It’s Subtext And You Need A Decoder Ring.
- Sara B. Cooper
There Isn’t Much Better In This Life Than Finding A Way To Spend A Few Hours In Conversation With People You Respect And Love. You Have To Carve This Time Out Of Your Life Because You Aren’t Really Living Without It.
- Gordon Atkinson
Talking With You Is Sort Of The Conversational Equivalent Of An Out Of Body Experience.
- Bill Watterson
Don’t Knock The Weather. If It Didn’t Change Once In A While, Nine Out Of Ten People Couldn’t Start A Conversation.
- Kin Hubbard
Let Us Make A Special Effort To Stop Communicating With Each Other, So We Can Have Some Conversation.
- Judith Martin
Conversation Should Be Pleasant Without Scurrility, Witty Without Affectation, Free Without Indecency, Learned Without Conceitedness, Novel Without Falsehood.
- William Shakespeare
Few Are Agreeable In Conversation, Because Each Thinks More Of What He Intends To Say Than Of What Others Are Saying, And Listens No More When He Himself Has A Chance To Speak.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Most Conversations Are Simply Monologues Delivered In The Presence Of Witnesses.
- Margaret Millar
Each Person’s Life Is Lived As A Series Of Conversations.
- Deborah Tannen
Your Ignorance, Cramps My Conversation.
- Sir Anthony Hawkins
Education Begins A Gentleman, Conversation Completes Him.
- Dr. Thomas Fuller
The Real Art Of Conversation Is Not Only To Say The Right Thing At The Right Place But To Leave Unsaid The Wrong Thing At The Tempting Moment.
- Dorothy Nevill
I Often Quote Myself. It Adds Spice To My Conversation.
- George Bernard Shaw
Bore: One Who Has The Power Of Speech But Not The Capacity For Conversation.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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