Class Quote by Oscar Wilde

The pith of conversation does not consist in exhibiting your own superior knowledge on matters of small consequence, but in enlarging, improving and correcting…

— Walter Scott

In short, we lose the freshness and spontaneity of true conversation. These are areas in which everyone interested in self-improvement will seek to improve.

— Dale Carnegie

“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

Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.

— Oscar Wilde

So much of what passes for conversation today is degraded. It's either about one-upmanship, or dreary trivia. Even the cut and thrust of wit…

— Theodore Zeldin

Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it…

— Ephesians 4:29

Make Things rather than Persons the subjects of conversations.

— John Adams

There are a lot of things that need to be done to improve communications.

— Douglas Feith

Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.

— Clarence Darrow

Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies

— Francois Fenelon

Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Great Talkers Are Little Doers; Sometimes, Those People Who Talk A Lot And Are Always Teaching Others Usually Do Not Do Much Work.

— Pacifiersucker