Quotes
Quotes about Conversation
Horatio, thou art e'en as just a man
As e'er my conversation coped withal.
Tom Birch is as brisk as a bee in conversation; but no sooner does he take a pen in his hand than it becomes a torpedo to him, and benumbs all his faculties.
Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.
His conversation does not show the minute-hand, but he strikes the hour very correctly.
Macaulay is like a book in breeches.... He has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful.
He speaketh not; and yet there lies
A conversation in his eyes.
And when you stick on conversation's burrs,
Don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs.
It is generally agreed that love is a moral sentiment, a community of thought rather than of sense. If that is the case, this community of thought ought to find expression in words and conversation.
Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.
The value of the average conversation could be enormously improved by the constant use of four simple words: "I do not know." -Andre Maurois
Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
The value of the average conversation could be enormously improved by the constant use of four simple words: "I do not know." -Andre Maurois
Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.
The value of the average conversation could be enormously improved by the constant use of four simple words: "I do not know." -Andre Maurois
I often quote myself; it adds spice to my conversation.
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.
Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
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.
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.
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
Debate is the death of conversation.
The irrepressible spirit that made his playing seem like good conversation is the Rubinstein legacy for pianists, if they can pick up their heads from the keyboard long enough to claim it.
What is reading, but silent conversation.
The music of the brook silenced all conversation.
All His glory and beauty come from within, and there He delights to dwell, His visits there are frequent, His conversation sweet, His comforts refreshing; and His peace passing all understanding.
