Conversation Quotes

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No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

He disliked contradiction, and still more, arguments that were continually skipping from one thing to another, introducing new and disconnected points, so that there was no knowing to which to reply.

Everyone had something disparaging to say about the unfortunate Maltyshcheva, and the conversation began crackling merrily like a kindling bonfire.

More of your conversation would infect my brain.

Plato worried that philosophical writing would take the place of living conversations for which, in philosophy, there is no substitute.

she wasn't veryinterestingbut few peopleare.

The best conversation I had was over forty million years ago, ' continued Marvin.Again the pause. 'Oh d—''And that was with a coffee machine.' He waited.

The fun of talk is to explore, but much of it and all that is irresponsible should not be written. Once written you have to stand by it. You may have said it to see whether you believed it or not.

Polite conversation is rarely either.

For, let me tell you that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me are the pleasure and charm of conversation.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.

That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition no vanity but a calm quiet interchange of sentiments.

She had lost the art of conversation but not unfortunately the power of speech.

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

Debate is masculine conversation is feminine.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

My doctor says I must not have any serious conversation after seven [o'clock]. It makes me talk in my sleep.

The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.

Frasier (Responding to the suggestion that he undertake the difficult work of closure in a relationship): "What you just said about my success made a lot of sense. I tuned you out after that.

Silence is also a form of speaking.

The author relates George Bernard Shaw's sentiments that polite conversation excludes the only two subjects that matter, religion and politics.

Though blue sky and the road’s yellow dust and the green of the nearing oasis were all snuffed out, he (newly converted Saul) did not miss them. Light suffused his blinded eyes, his mind.

I like to be at a party and be a quiet observer, be in conversation. I wouldn't say I was a class clown growing up, but I would definitely sit back in class and take snipes at the teacher.

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.

Clearly she was expected to say something, but panic at having to speak stole the thoughts from her head.

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

A good conversation always involves a certain amount of complaining. I like to bond over mutual hatreds and petty grievances.

He could see that drinking and conversation were inexorably intertwined and that one did not occur without the other.

A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.

Conversations consist for the most part of things one does not say.

It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing, ’ she muttered.

Because there are hundreds of different ways to say one thing, I, being a writer, songwriter, and poet, speak childishly and incoherently. In speech there is so much to decide in so little time.

It was the kind of conversation you could only hold in whispers.

He's never quite got the trick of conversation, tending to hear in dissenting views, however mild, a kind of affront, an invitation to mortal combat.

The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship.

Manners are the ability to put someone else at their ease...by turning any answer into another question.

Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.

Betsy liked to talk. Her father always said she got it from her mother, and her mother always said she got it from her father. But whomever she got it from she was certainly a talker.

As an introvert, you crave intimate moments and deep connections--and those usually aren't found in a crowd.

She felt that her speech was voicing the incoherency her thoughts, and stopped abruptly.

The process of communication with the afterlife - more of an exchange than a conversation - has always fascinated me.

Everybody talks, but there is no conversation.

It was as if my whole life revolved around trying to judge the appropriate point in a conversation to say goodbye

If they’re together long enough, every couple has one conversation over and over. This was ours.

We cannot be too careful about the words we use