Conversation Quotes

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...

Some people like to hear themselves talk, but I like to hear myself silent.

At some point, one asks, "Toward what end is my life lived?" A great freedom comes from being able t...

A man once asked me ... how I managed in my books to write such natural conversation between men whe...

The best conversation I had was over forty million years ago,' continued Marvin.Again the pause. 'Oh...

Conversation enriches the understanding but solitude is the school of genius.

Too much agreement kills a chat.

It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.

The fun of talk is to explore, but much of it and all that is irresponsible should not be written. O...

Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good soli...

You have to wait together - for a week, for a year, for a lifetime, before the final intimate conver...

Polite conversation is rarely either.

She had lost the art of conversation but not unfortunately the power of speech.

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.

Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It's the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything wit...

I've been fortunate enough to write a book and travel the country to sign and sell it, so I can safe...

Bodisham insisted upon a series of conferences with practically all the Group present and participat...

Only one person in 1000 is a bore, and HE is interesting because he is one person in 1000.

It's basically the same in all periods of societies. If you belong to the majority, you can avoid th...

It was as if my whole life revolved around trying to judge the appropriate point in a conversation t...

One never said the things one wanted — one remembered them all an hour afterwards. On the other hand...

Silence is also a form of speaking.

He's never quite got the trick of conversation, tending to hear in dissenting views, however mild, a...

We don't talk, we hold forth. We don't converse, we expound.

Though we've talked and talked and talked, we've all agreed not to say a word.

I figured I could get a job at a filling station somewhere, putting gas and oil in people's cars. I ...

Good Morning!" said Bilbo, and he meant it. The sun was shining, and the grass was very green. But G...

[M]rs. Miniver was beginning to feel more than a little weary of exchanging ideas (especially politi...

My idea of good company, Mr. Eliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great ...

Playing is just about feeling. Playing isn't necessarily about misery. Playing isn't necessarily abo...

Communication is now often experienced as a superhuman phenomenon that towers above individuals. A n...

Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something ...

Want to play hangman? asks Theophile, and I ache to tell him that I have enough on my plate playing ...

So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's un...

[Jules] slides into a seat beside me with her hot lunch tray, sighing. “Four hours, thirty-six minut...

I don't know what he means by that, but I nod and smile at him. You'd be surprised at how far that r...

We fall back into silence. I look around XO Café and notice that chatter happens mostly at tables wh...

In the best conversations, you don't even remember what you talked about, only how it felt. It felt ...

Life seemed even more of a guessing game than usual.

She felt that her speech was voicing the incoherency her thoughts, and stopped abruptly.

The sad thing is that I feel so boring because 'Twilight' is literally how every conversation I have...

Words suck. I mean, every thing has been said. I can't remember the last real interesting conversati...

We can't have democracy if we're having to protect you and our users from the government over stuff ...

And there you go again, that tone in your voice, never a word out of place, but your tone says clear...

Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for con...

If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.

He disliked contradiction, and still more, arguments that were continually skipping from one thing t...

Everyone had something disparaging to say about the unfortunate Maltyshcheva, and the conversation b...

Debate is masculine conversation is feminine.

In the middle of a conversation, someone says to me out of the blue: "I wish you luck." I am astonis...

There is nothing that makes me happier than sitting around the dinner table and talking until the ca...

Past conversations were slowly realigning in Blue's head, taking on new shades of meaning as they di...

The art of conversation lies in listening

The notion that the only way you can critically engage with a person’s ideas is to take a shot at th...