"The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the……" — William Temple
"The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit."
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27 Quotes by William Temple
William Temple has 27 quotes on this site.
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The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for…
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People that trust wholly to other's charity, and without industry of their own, will always be poor.
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Learning passes for wisdom among those who want both.
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We shall say without hesitation that the atheist who is moved by love is moved by the Spirit of God;…
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Some of the Fathers went so far as to esteem the love of music a sign of predestination, as a…
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The greatest pleasure in life is love.
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I prefer a God who once and for all impressed his will upon creation, to one who continually busied about…
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Science has its being in a perpetual mental restlessness.
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The greatest medicine is a true friend.
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There is no structural organization of society which can bring about the coming of the Kingdom of God on earth…
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The best rules to form a young man are: to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what…
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A man's wisdom is his best friend; folly, his worst enemy.
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More Conversation Quotes
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It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then.
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I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know…
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Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds…
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My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that…
— Jane Austen
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The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which,…
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I don't think of myself as giving interviews. I just have conversations. That gets me in trouble.
— Charles Barkley
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I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations…
— Mario Batali
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship…
— Joseph Addison
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A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction,…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.
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Love without conversation is impossible.
— Mortimer Adler
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I have very intense conversations with friends, people I really interconnect with. We talk about politics, important things. I like…
— Jacqueline Bisset
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