“ Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience. ”
- Bill Watterson- Copy
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“ Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know. ”
- Cullen Hightower- Copy
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“ Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations. ”
- Deborah Tannen- Copy
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“ The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. ”
- Dorothy Nevill- Copy
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“ Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him. ”
- Dr. Thomas Fuller- Copy
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“ Few are agreeable in conversation, because each thinks more of what he intends to say than of what others are saying, and listens no more when he himself has a chance to speak. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
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“ To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
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“ I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ There isn’t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren’t really living without it. ”
- Gordon Atkinson- Copy
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“ Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
- 560
“ One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid. ”
- Jonathan Swift- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation. ”
- Judith Martin- Copy
- 1K
“ Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation. ”
- Kin Hubbard- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Spoken words evaporated into the air just as easily as burned letters, but the sound of them seemed immortal. It was as if a word spoken could not be destroyed. ”
- Laura Moncur- Copy
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“ Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses. ”
- Margaret Millar- Copy
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“ You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. ”
- Plato- Copy
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“ Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ I don't know how to have casual conversation. You think you're talking about one thing, and either you are and it's incredibly boring, or you're not because it's subtext and you need a decoder ring. ”
- Sara B. Cooper- Copy
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“ He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful. ”
- Sydney Smith- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, 'there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.' A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence. ”
- Tom Blair- Copy
- 2.1K
“ It's always difficult to make conversation with a drunk, and there's no denying it, the sober are at a disadvantage with him. ”
- W. Somerset Maugham- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 370
“ He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful. ”
- Sydney Smith- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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