Quotes
Quotes about Conversation
An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation
Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.
So smooth he daubed his vice with show of virtue That, his apparent open guilt omitted-- I mean, his conversation with Shore's wife-- He lived from all attainder of suspects.
A single conversation with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.
Linux poses a real challenge for those with a taste for late-nighthacking (and/or conversations with God).
There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation. -James Nathan Miller.
Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
Silence is one great art of conversation.
Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to have anything to say to each other for more than ten minutes at a stretch. The barriers are ancientâperhaps rooted, as some paleontologist may soon discover, in the contrast between the occasional guttural utterances exchanged in male hunting bands and the extended discussions characteristic of female food-gathering groups.
In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
Nothing lowers the level on conversation more than raising the voice.
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.
If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating.
There is nothing that exasperates people more than a display of superior ability or brilliance in conversation. They seem pleased at the time, but their envy makes them curse the conversationalist in their heart.
All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy. - What We Live By.
El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice.
A recent conversation: Dubya: Look at the clock, time is racing! Cheney: That's the second hand, George.
What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. â¢George Bernard Shaw It is better to be quotable than to be honest. â¢Tom Stoppard Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. â¢Orson Welles Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
Only if we can restrain ourselves is good conversation possible. Good talk rises upon much discipline.
The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably.
For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind. Do they see it well clothed, neat, businesswise?.
A gossip is one who talks to you about others; a bore is one who talks to you about himself; and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself.
The cell phone has transformed public places into giant phone-a-thons in which callers exist within narcissistic cocoons of private conversations. Like faxes, computer modems and other modern gadgets that have clogged out lives with phony urgency, cell phones represent the 20th Century's escalation of imaginary need. We didn't need cell phones until we had them. Clearly, cell phones cause not only a breakdown of courtesy, but the atrophy of basic skills.
