Art Quote by Guy de Maupassant

Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.

— Anonymous

There is in this world no real delight (excepting those of sensuality), but exchange of ideas in conversation.

— Samuel Johnson

Surely only boring people went in for conversations consisting of questions and answers. The art of true conversation consisted in the play of minds.

— Ved Mehta

“There’s a difficult line to walk between what we need to know and what falls into the realm of mystery. Walking that line often…

— Casey Tygrett

“Being a great conversationalist is about two things: creating intrigue and interest, and creating emotional connection.”

— Matthew Hussey

I strike up conversations all the time and it is very interesting, finding out about things I know nothing about.

— Peter Ackroyd

Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the…

— Evelyn Waugh

Conversation is the fine art of mutual consideration and communication about matters of common interest that basically have some human importance.

— Ordway Tead

If you explore beneath shyness or party chit-chat, you can sometimes turn a dull exchange into an intriguing one. I've found this to be…

— Joyce Carol Oates

The art of conversation, or the qualification for a good companion, is a certain self-control, which now holds the subject, now lets it go,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson