Small Talk Quotes
55 quotes by 53 authors
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Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.
— Elizabeth Bowen
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During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk.
— Fred Allen
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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
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Don't like small talk, love rainy days.
— Melissa Gilbert
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I'm trying to elevate small-talk to medium talk.
— Larry David
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Teas, Where small talk dies in agonies.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Money talks. If it's the dollar, it's small talk.
— Croft M. Pentz
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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: