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Conversation Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- The only proper intoxication is conversation.
- Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.
- Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.
- If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.
- The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead…
- I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself. Sometimes I am so clever…
- Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
- Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes
- Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people…
- Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.
- LADY STUTFIELD I adore silent men. MRS ALLONBY Oh, Ernest isn't silent. He talks the whole time. But he has got no conversation. What he…
- There is no good talking to him," said a Dragon-fly, who was sitting on the top of a large brown bulrush; "no good at all,…
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