Conversation Quotes
2139 quotes by 1612 authors
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It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then.
— Richard Armour
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I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a…
— Antonin Artaud
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Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business. Hence come those…
— Mary Astell
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My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good…
— Jane Austen
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The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly…
— Douglas Adams
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I don't think of myself as giving interviews. I just have conversations. That gets me in trouble.
— Charles Barkley
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I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments was a slamming…
— Mario Batali
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few…
— Joseph Addison
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A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.
— Yogi Berra
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Love without conversation is impossible.
— Mortimer Adler
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I have very intense conversations with friends, people I really interconnect with. We talk about politics, important things. I like to talk about ideas and…
— Jacqueline Bisset
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If you are trying to take a difficult decision and you're weighing up the pros and cons, you have frank conversations. Everybody knows this in…
— Tony Blair
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The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation…
— Deborah Bull
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Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But…
— Madeleine Albright
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You think that the heads of state only have serious conversations, but they actually often begin really with the weather or, 'I really like your…
— Madeleine Albright
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I learned firsthand that there would simply be no wars if people engaged in real conversation.
— Mark Burnett
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Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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I am relatively sure, from conversations that I had with former president Bill Clinton, that George Bush seldom called upon him for advice.
— Tony Campolo
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