Small Talk Quotes

55 quotes by 53 authors

• Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk. — Elizabeth Bowen
• During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk. — Fred Allen
• Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to confront them with… — Max Beerbohm
• Don't like small talk, love rainy days. — Melissa Gilbert
• In a foreign country it is far from easy to study a scene at length when you know that at any minute someone may appear… — Robert Adams
• Let's clear one thing up: Introverts do not hate small talk because we dislike people. We hate small talk because we hate the barrier it… — Laurie Helgoe
• During depression the world disappears. Language itself. One has nothing to say. Nothing. No small talk, no anecdotes. Nothing can be risked on the board… — Kate Millett
• The American appetite for loneliness impressed me, and there was something about this solitude that freed conversation. One night at a bar, I met a… — Peter Hessler
• I'm trying to elevate small-talk to medium talk. — Larry David
• Teas, Where small talk dies in agonies. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Money talks. If it's the dollar, it's small talk. — Croft M. Pentz
• Every morning, after a few sips of coffee and a bit of small talk, each of us retreats with our books, and travels centuries away… — Yxta Maya Murray
• I just have a hard time with small talk. My friend Jocelyn says I'm too quiet, but I'm really not quiet. I just tend to… — Lauren Barnholdt
• Introverts don't like small talk conversation, but they typically don't mind writing. The more people can "see" you on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, or a blog,… — Thom S. Rainer
• Who should listen to discussions of theology? Those for whom it is a serious undertaking, not just another subject like any other for entertaining small-talk,… — Gregory of Nazianzus
• I was taken by William Burroughs’ presence and intelligence from the first time I was introduced to him, by Lester Bangs in 1975. He was… — Kate Simon
• I crave the sweet surrender of sleep and my dreams' uncensored communication: no tiresome small talk, sucking up to impress, or tiptoeing around charged topics.… — Judith Orloff
• The stage, the screen, the novel, casual conversation, the street discussion, and too often the fireside intimacies are punctuated with blasphemy, to which may be… — Ezra Taft Benson
• If Christians cannot communicate as thinking beings, they are reduced to encountering one another only at the shallow level of gossip and small talk. Hence… — Harry Blamires
• What keeps faith cheerful is the extreme persistence of gentleness and humor. Gentleness is everywhere in daily life, a sign that faith rules through ordinary… — Garrison Keillor

Who Wrote These Small Talk Quotes

53 authors contributed a total of 55 Small Talk Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 2 Small Talk Quotes by Elizabeth Bowen
• 2 Small Talk Quotes by Susan Cain
• 1 Small Talk Quote by Yxta Maya Murray
• 1 Small Talk Quote by Mindy Kaling
• 1 Small Talk Quote by Lauren Barnholdt
• 1 Small Talk Quote by Andrea Gibson
• 1 Small Talk Quote by Thom S. Rainer
• 1 Small Talk Quote by Anushka Sharma
• 1 Small Talk Quote by Gregory of Nazianzus
• 1 Small Talk Quote by Lil Wayne
• 1 Small Talk Quote by Kate Simon
• 1 Small Talk Quote by Kanye West
• 1 Small Talk Quote by Judith Orloff
• 1 Small Talk Quote by Green Monk
• 1 Small Talk Quote by Ezra Taft Benson
• 1 Small Talk Quote by J. Cole
• 1 Small Talk Quote by Harry Blamires
• 1 Small Talk Quote by Nikhil Saluja
• 1 Small Talk Quote by Garrison Keillor
• 1 Small Talk Quote by BJ Novak
• 1 Small Talk Quote by Lewis Thomas
• 1 Small Talk Quote by Luke Garner
• 1 Small Talk Quote by Alex Kapranos
• 1 Small Talk Quote by Matt Roper
• 1 Small Talk Quote by Judith Martin