Communication Quotes by Oscar Wilde

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

— Oscar Wilde

When both a speaker and an audience are confused, the speech is profound.

— Oscar Wilde

If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

— Oscar Wilde

“The bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation”

— Oscar Wilde

“If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it in conversation.”

— Oscar Wilde

Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes

— Oscar Wilde

Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.

— Oscar Wilde

The only proper intoxication is conversation.

— Oscar Wilde

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

“I am getting rather astonishing in my Italian conversation. I believe I talk a mixture of Dante and the worst modern slang.”

— Oscar Wilde

Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.

— Oscar Wilde

“I could deny myself the pleasure of talking, but not to others the pleasure of listening.”

— Oscar Wilde

The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once…

— Oscar Wilde

Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea…

— Oscar Wilde

“I never talk during music, at least during good music. If one hears bad music, it is one’s duty to drown it…

— Oscar Wilde

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and…

— Oscar Wilde

I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself. Sometimes I…

— Oscar Wilde

The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being…

— Oscar Wilde

I am afraid that you have been listening to the conversation of someone older than yourself. That is always a dangerous thing…

— Oscar Wilde

“I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself, and I…

— Oscar Wilde

“LADY BRACKNELL: It is my last reception, and one wants something that will encourage conversation, particularly at the end of the season…

— Oscar Wilde

And, as for what is called improving conversation, that is merely the foolish method by which the still more foolish philanthropist feebly…

— Oscar Wilde

“MRS. ALLONBY. It is only fair to tell you beforehand he has got no conversation at all. LADY STUTFIELD. I adore silent…

— Oscar Wilde

There is no good talking to him," said a Dragon-fly, who was sitting on the top of a large brown bulrush; "no…

— Oscar Wilde

One should never listen. To listen is a sign of indifference to one's hearers.

— Oscar Wilde

“Poor old Lord Mortlake, who had only two topics of conversation, his gout and his wife! I never could quite make out…

— Oscar Wilde