Listen well, and you will be pronounced a "brilliant"…

Would you like to be a brilliant conversationalist? Just give your natural enthusiasm free reign and say whatever comes into your head. Your rashness…

— Alain-Rene Lesage

I no longer worry about being a brilliant conversationalist. I simply try to be a good listener. I notice that people who do that…

— Frank Bettger

A gossip is one who talks to you about others; a bore is one who talks to you about himself; and a brilliant conversationalist…

— Lisa Kirk

“Conversation lets you be an artist every time you open your mouth--or shut it. As Robert Louis Stevenson said, "The most important art is…

— Margaret Shepherd

I think, to be a great conversationalist, you need to be interested in being in said conversation. Oddly enough, I think you need to…

— Tom Segura

“If they ever create an award for best conversationalist, let me know and I’ll apply. Until then, have a sip from my bottle of…

— David Estes

Beware of the conversationalist who adds "In other words."

— Robert Morley

“It's difficult to find a good conversationalist.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“He wondered idly whether she was a poor conversationalist because she got no attention or got no attention because she was a poor conversationalist.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.

— John Mason Brown

The mark of a good conversationalist is not that you can talk a lot. The mark is that you can get others to talk…

— Guy Kawasaki

Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions and guiles,…

— Jack Vance

I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist, but you wind up being downgraded to idiot status when you don't speak the language!

— Alec Baldwin

“Otherwise, I’d like nothing better than…conversing with you. You’re such a deep, penetrating conversationalist, after all,”

— Sharon Kay Penman

Beware of the conversationalist who adds "in other words." He is merely starting afresh.

— Christopher Morley