Communication Quote by Laura Riding

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.

— Rebecca West

Conversation means being able to disagree and still continue the discussion

— Dwight Macdonald

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

— Amos Bronson Alcott

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

— Truman Capote

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness.

— Margaret Millar

When you don't talk, there's a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said.

— Catherine Gilbert Murdock

Conversation is the art of speaking without thinking.

— Victor De Kowa

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses

— Margaret Miller

...every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.

— Graham Greene

“Conversation consists of developing and playing with ideas by juxtaposing the accumulated conclusions of two or more people and then improvising on them. It…

— Judith Martin

Good conversational debate is an end in itself, and talking for the love of conversation is what makes us human.

— Bryce Courtenay

Conversation is a meeting of minds with different memories and habits. When minds meet, they don't just exchange facts: they transform them, reshape them,…

— Theodore Zeldin