Conversation Quotes - page 2

Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen. (Samuel Johnson)
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech. View quote
Emil Cioran
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. View quote
Joseph Addison
Method is not less requisite in conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood. View quote
Joseph Addison
Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty. View quote
Joseph Addison
Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know. View quote
André Maurois
In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to madness. Some have made it, of course, and they hold special places in our regard. To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices. View quote
Don DeLillo
A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company. (Jane Austen)
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation. View quote
William Butler Yeats
The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi. View quote
Ben Elton
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. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Two man talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Macaulay has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful. View quote
Sydney Smith
Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while. View quote
Kin Hubbard
If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating. View quote
Leigh Hunt
Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation. View quote
Mark Twain
A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation. (Mark Twain)
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. View quote
Rainer Maria Rilke
The very fact that we are having a national conversation about what we should eat, that we are struggling with the question about what the best diet is, is symptomatic of how far we have strayed from the natural conditions that gave rise to our species, from the simple act of eating real, whole, fresh food. View quote
Mark Hyman, M.D.
An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy. View quote
Charles Williams
Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words. View quote
Deborah Bull