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Conversation quotes (31) I praise God for you sir: your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without scurrility witty without affectation audacious without impudency learned without opinion and strange with-out heresy. William Shakespeare Category: Conversation The value of the average conversation could be enormously improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know. Andre Maurois Category: Conversation Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness. Margaret Miller Category: Conversation Monkeys who very sensibly refrain from speech lest they should be set to earn their livings. Kenneth Grahame Category: Conversation Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other so we can have some conversation. Judith Martin Category: Conversation Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Ralph Waldo Emerson Category: Conversation CONVERSATION n. A fair to the display of the minor mental commodities each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own wares to observe those of his neighbor. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Category: Conversation One factor that makes it rare for us to find so few people who can carry on an agreeable and rational conversation is that there are practically no people who do not think first of all about what they want to say rather than responding precisely to what others are saying to them. The politest people are content merely to show an attentive mien while all the time we see that their eyes and their minds are wandering and that they are in a rush to return to what they want to say. They should consider that this insistent search for self-satisfaction is a poor way of giving pleasure and that it is a greater accomplishment to listen well and reply justly than to speak well and often without responding to what others are saying to us. Marquise Magdeleine de Sable Category: Conversation The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. George Bernard Shaw Category: Conversation Its all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then. Richard Armour Category: Conversation The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another mans observation not overturning it. Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton Category: Conversation Silence is one of the great arts of conversation. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: 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. Kin Hubbard Category: Conversation While we look not at the things which are seen but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. The Bible Category: Conversation Conversation enriches the understanding but solitude is the school of genius. Edward Gibbon Category: Conversation No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does. Christopher Darlington Morley Category: Conversation There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when youre busy interrupting. Mark Twain Category: Conversation And when you stick on conversations burrs Don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs. Oliver Wendell Holmes Category: Conversation Conversation has a kind of charm about it an insinuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Conversation When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation. Dr. Samuel Johnson Category: Conversation Calvin: Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out-of-body experience. William B.'Bill' Watterson II Category: Conversation His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes of silence that make his conversation perfectly delightful. Sydney Smith Category: Conversation A gossip is someone who talks to you about others a bore is someone who talks to you about himself an excellent conversationalist is someone who talks to you about you. Lisa Kirk Category: 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. Kin Hubbard Category: Conversation Be able to disagree without being disagreeable. We must not let the things we can't do keep us from doing the things we can do. Richard L. Evans Category: Conversation Good conversation like a defensive driver yields the right of way. William Walter De Bolt Category: Conversation A repartee is what a person thinks of after he becomes a departee. Dan Bennett Category: Conversation Lettuce is like conversation: it must be fresh and crisp and so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it. Charles Dudley Warner Category: Conversation Conversation is the slowest form of human communication. Unknown Category: Conversation It gets you nowhere if the other persons tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conversation. Alan Alexander Milne Category: Conversation You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. Plato Category: Conversation |
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