Conversation Quotes

2139 Conversation quotes by 1544 unique authors

There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply its… — Joseph Addison
In a discussion, the difficulty lies, not in being able to defend your opinion, but to know it. — Andre Maurois
The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation. — Plato
A person who talks with equal vivacity on every subject, excites no interest in any. Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture. — William Hazlitt
No discussion between two persons can be of any use, until each knows clearly what it is that the other asserts. — Lewis Carroll
In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent. — Unknown Author
What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people's minds. — Walter Scott
It appears that even the different parts of the same person do not converse among themselves, do not succeed in learning from each other what… — Rebecca West
I enjoy many silent moments with my cat, a conversation always resumed exactly where left off. — Robert Breault
I have no statistics to prove it, but I'm sure the American workplace will be adversely affected on Monday, the day after XXIV. The game… — Robert Klein
Prayer is continuing a conversation that God has started through his Word and his grace, which eventually becomes a full encounter with him. — Timothy Keller
I'm encouraging other people, whether they're professionals or not, to use their creativity to express themselves, to get a conversation going, to get the party… — Madonna Ciccone
It has been said that good prose should resemble the conversation of a well-bred man. — W. Somerset Maugham
Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as it indicates the coolest yet… — Charles Caleb Colton
They that are loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. It is probable that he who is killed by lightning… — Charles Caleb Colton
When we are in the company of sensible men, we ought to be doubly cautious of talking too much, lest we lose two good things,… — Charles Caleb Colton
One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word. — Andre Gide
No one is qualified to converse in public except those contented to do without such conversation. — Thomas a Kempis
When elderly invalids meet with fellow-victims of their own ailments, then at last real conversation begins, and life is delicious. — Logan Pearsall Smith
Whoever interrupts the conversation of others to make a display of his fund of knowledge, makes notorious his own stock of ignorance. — Saadi
Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had… — Lord Chesterfield
A civil guest Will no more talk all, than eat all the feast. — George Herbert
That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood. — Alexander Pope
Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and hands. For writing is an artificial activity.… — Brooks Atkinson
Poetry is halfway between prose and music: it is sometimes like an intimate conversation, in words and phrases which need not be fully uttered, and… — Gilbert Highet

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