“So hollow and ineffectual, for the most part, is our ordinary conversation. Surface meets surface. When our life ceases to be inward… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“For it has come about, by the wise economy of nature, that our modern spirit can almost dispense with language; the commonest… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It would scarcely be acceptable, for example, to ask in the course of an ordinary conversation what our society holds to be… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I don't know anything that gives me greater pleasure, or profit either, than talking or listening to philosophy. But when it comes… — Plato Copy Share Image
There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
It is notorious that we speak no more than half-truths in our ordinary conversation, and even a soliloquy is likely to be… — Eric Linklater Copy Share Image
I like to think that the best poetry is or involves a contest between ordinary conversation and ritual. — Miller Williams Copy Share Image
Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
