Conversation Quotes

Love without conversation is impossible.

Chester nods all the way through this, but does not rudely interrupt Randy as a younger nerd would. ...

Literature does not occur in a vacuum. It cannot be a monologue. It has to be a conversation, and ne...

Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas, they ...

My doctor says I must not have any serious conversation after seven [o'clock]. It makes me talk in m...

What ho!" I said."What ho!" said Motty."What ho! What ho!""What ho! What ho! What ho!"After that it ...

I should have been bolder and kissed her at the end. I should have been more cautious. I had talked ...

Bit by bit, I found myself relaxing into the conversation. Kitty had a natural talent for drawing pe...

The day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine every possible conversation, you promi...

He knew very well that the great majority of human conversation is meaningless. A man can get throug...

She thinks, I'm telling him who I am. He's interested in who I am. That is true, but I am curious ab...

For, let me tell you that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me are the pl...

A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've bee...

In good company there is never such discourse between two, across the table, as takes place when you...

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

Four days, eight days, twelve days passed, and he was invited to teas, to suppers, to lunches. They ...

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues. That i...

It's all right to hold a conversation, but you should let go of it now and then.

The conversation was mesmerizing, not for its content but for the cadences of the talk, the rhythm w...

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't and the other half who have...

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

The conversation was like the sort one has in dreams—mad but interesting.

The first conversation began awkwardly, although Espinoza had been expecting Pelletier's call, as if...

So they left the subject and played croquet, which is a very good game for people who are annoyed wi...

As human being, we live in a perpetual conversation between conversation and violence; what apart fr...

In order to be company he must display a certain mental activity. But it need not be of a high order...

John Wesley's conversation is good but he is never at leisure. He is always obliged to go at a cert...

That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition no vanity but a calm quiet interch...

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance that knows what you know. I see so many of...

It was mortifying to find how strong the habit of idle speech may become in one’s self. One need not...

Like a good Indian, he knew when to talk and when to remain silent. Like a good Indian, he knew ther...

I sort of thought that maybe people had to talk that way, sort of saying the same things over and ov...

I sort of thought that maybe people had to talk that way, sort of saying the same things over and ov...

I sort of thought that maybe people had to talk that way, sort of saying the same things over and ov...

I sort of thought that maybe people had to talk that way, sort of saying the same things over and ov...

Tell me something. Do you believe in God?'Snow darted an apprehensive glance in my direction. 'What?...

Surely she had endured enough for one evening without having to listen to intelligent conversation?

He did it (listened) as the world's most charming and magnetic people do, always asking the right qu...

He (Macaulay) has occasional flashes of silence that make his conversation perfectly delightful.

You asked why the rate hate Overlanders so deeply. It is because they know one will be the warrior o...

You never say a word of yourself dear Lady Grey. You have that dreadful sin of anti-egotism.

He (Macaulay) has occasional flashes of silence that make his conversation perfectly delightful.

You never say a word of yourself dear Lady Grey. You have that dreadful sin of anti-egotism.

Even his conversation was, as it were, a spoken part.

Sometimes thinking is like talking to another person, but that person is also you.

I particularly value conversations which are meetings on the borderline of what I understand and wha...

Speech is civilization itself.

Manners are the ability to put someone else at their ease...by turning any answer into another quest...

As the Athenians to the Pnyx, the antique Romans to the Campus Martius, or our Nordic ancestors to t...

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due t...

A conversation between Adso and William -You understand, Adso, I must believe that my proposition wo...

At least in Russia, you cannot just go and tap into someone's phone conversation without a warrant i...

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not kn...

While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom the necessity of listening is what makes th...

Prior to being allowed to enter the profession, prospective teachers should be asked to talk with a ...

Silence is one great art of conversation.

Wit is the salt of conversation not the food.

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fo...

The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fo...

The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.

The prudent man always studies seriously and earnestly to understand whatever he professes to unders...

And anyway who the devil should I want to murder?""That would be a very good question," said Miss Ma...

Mr Rycroft said nothing. It was so difficult not to say the wrong thing to Captain Wyatt that it was...

It's extraordinary, the amount of misunderstandings there are even between two people who discuss a ...

The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you. You're in a conversation...

Courage and willingness to just go for it, whether it is a conversation or a spontaneous trip or try...

How often have I noticed or, indeed, listened to him? We talk, but do I actually listen, or is our c...

There are words which close a conversation as with an iron door.

Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered.

I often look to men to model behavior," she goes on after a pause. "Not because I want to squelch wh...

I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful tha...

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

Is it that they think it a duty to be continually talking,' pursued she: 'and so never pause to thin...

I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in co...

Some conversations are not about what they're about.

I've given guys blow jobs just because I've run out of things to talk about.'Oh, Rae. Who hasn't

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.

And once again, only the Small Things were said. The Big Things lurked unsaid inside.

Like many human beings, he took the least sign of conversation as his cue to make noise.

[I retained] only the Habit of expressing my self in Terms of modest Diffidence, never using when I ...

As I got warmed up and felt perfectly at home in talk I heard myself boasting lying exaggerating...

When a person pauses in mid-sentence to choose a word, that's the best time to jump in and change th...

In a useful conversation... there is a double coincidence of wants. You have to be interested in wha...

Conversations consist for the most part of things one does not say.

Most people are much better at saying things in letters than in conversation, and some people can wr...

she wasn't veryinterestingbut few peopleare.

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

We define our identity always in dialogue with, sometimes in struggle against, the things our signif...

Your narrative may fail to grip if you haven't taken any care to find out how well or badly your aud...

Heaven, envious of our joys, is waxen pale; And when we whisper, then the stars fall down To be part...

As far as I am concerned, philosophic questioning is just as likely to make you confused and depress...

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

A ceremony of self-wastage - good talkers are miserable they know that they have betrayed themselve...

It was the talk that mattered supremely: the impassioned exchange of talk. Love was only a minor acc...

Once you take the time to consider the other person's perspective, you will become sympathetic to hi...

There are two conversations going on at the same time: the story and a conversation about how the st...