Conversation Quotes

We must practice modesty, not only in our looks, but also in our whole deportment, and particularly in our dress, our walk, our conversation, and all similar actions.

So they left the subject and played croquet, which is a very good game for people who are annoyed with one another, giving many opportunities for venting rancor.

Behind every communication problem is a sweaty ten-minute conversation that you don't want to have.

I am annoyed by individuals who are embarrassed by pauses in a conversation. To me, every conversational pause refreshes.

What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.

For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.

Teaching...can be likened to a conversation in which you listen to the speaker carefully before you reply.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.

Oh, this thing of keeping in constant touch with God, of making him the object of my thought and the companion of my conversations, is the most amazing thing I ever ran across.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he wishes to hear, not only your conversation, but that of every other person in the room.

Never seem wiser or more learned than the people you are with.

History is a process of transformation through conversation. In our efforts to produce change,we often forget how important it is to pay attention to what is being conserved.

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.

Like comedy, horror has an ability to provoke thought and further the conversation on real social issues in a very powerful way.

When I say that I love you, I don't say it out of habit or to make conversation. I say it to remind you that you're the best thing that's ever happened to me.

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

Talk about science with everyone you meet. Especially talk about climate change. It needs to become a part of our everyday conversation (the way it is everywhere else in the world).

Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.

I've found that if I say what I'm really thinking and feeling, people are more likely to say what they really think and feel. The conversation becomes a real conversation.

Male-female conversation is cross-cultural communication

I just like people. I'll hold a conversation at a gas station. It's not about the fame and the fortune, I just like people.

Always remember that no matter what anyone is saying to you from the outside, the most important conversation is the one you are having with yourself on the inside.

I could sit right here and have a 15-minute conversation with somebody and change their whole life.

Ask those who love Him with a sincere love, and they will tell you that they find no greater or prompter relief amid the troubles of their life than in loving conversation with their Divine Friend.

Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.

Conversation like television set on honeymoon... unnecessary.

In their presence, there's no need for continuous conversation, but you find you're quite content in just having them nearby.

Sighs and silences and avoided conversations are just as important as the things you do talk about.

When elderly invalids meet with fellow-victims of their own ailments, then at last real conversation begins, and life is delicious.

Every conversation, every cuddle, aver kiss and caress, even every disagreement, adds another brushstroke to the picture of home you paint with the days and hours of your life.

I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing.

The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.

I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.

I can wear a hat or take it off, but either way it's a conversation piece.

In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge; nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them.

The kind of conversation I like is one in which you are prepared to emerge a slightly different person.

I know what things are good: friendship and work and conversation. These I shall have.

If I can enjoy a joke at the expense of another; if I can in any way slight another in conversation, or even in thought, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.

LOL has turned into something you type when you have nothing better to add into a conversation.

Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.

Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation.

There are those moments when you shake someone's hand, have a conversation with someone, and suddenly your all bound together because you share your humanity in one simple moment.

Two people in a conversation amount to four people talking. The four are what one person says, what he really wanted to say, what his listener heard, and what he thought he heard.

Feminism was not a rulebook but a discussion, a conversation, a process...

The First Goal of Conversation: Understanding, not Agreement

Life, this endless conversation with yourself. Silent in sanity, audible in madness.

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

Theater is perhaps one of the few places left where we are in a dialogue right now. Everything has become so partisan, and the rhetoric has become so heated, that conversation is almost impossible.