Conversation Quotes

In a useful conversation... there is a double coincidence of wants. You have to be interested in wha...

Conversations consist for the most part of things one does not say.

Most people are much better at saying things in letters than in conversation, and some people can wr...

she wasn't veryinterestingbut few peopleare.

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

We define our identity always in dialogue with, sometimes in struggle against, the things our signif...

Your narrative may fail to grip if you haven't taken any care to find out how well or badly your aud...

Heaven, envious of our joys, is waxen pale; And when we whisper, then the stars fall down To be part...

As far as I am concerned, philosophic questioning is just as likely to make you confused and depress...

The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own w...

A ceremony of self-wastage - good talkers are miserable they know that they have betrayed themselve...

It was the talk that mattered supremely: the impassioned exchange of talk. Love was only a minor acc...

Once you take the time to consider the other person's perspective, you will become sympathetic to hi...

There are two conversations going on at the same time: the story and a conversation about how the st...

Some people like to hear themselves talk, but I like to hear myself silent.

At some point, one asks, "Toward what end is my life lived?" A great freedom comes from being able t...

A man once asked me ... how I managed in my books to write such natural conversation between men whe...

The best conversation I had was over forty million years ago,' continued Marvin.Again the pause. 'Oh...

Conversation enriches the understanding but solitude is the school of genius.

Too much agreement kills a chat.

It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.

The fun of talk is to explore, but much of it and all that is irresponsible should not be written. O...

Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good soli...

You have to wait together - for a week, for a year, for a lifetime, before the final intimate conver...

Polite conversation is rarely either.

She had lost the art of conversation but not unfortunately the power of speech.

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.

Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It's the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything wit...

I've been fortunate enough to write a book and travel the country to sign and sell it, so I can safe...

Bodisham insisted upon a series of conferences with practically all the Group present and participat...

Only one person in 1000 is a bore, and HE is interesting because he is one person in 1000.

It's basically the same in all periods of societies. If you belong to the majority, you can avoid th...

It was as if my whole life revolved around trying to judge the appropriate point in a conversation t...

One never said the things one wanted — one remembered them all an hour afterwards. On the other hand...

Silence is also a form of speaking.

He's never quite got the trick of conversation, tending to hear in dissenting views, however mild, a...

We don't talk, we hold forth. We don't converse, we expound.

Though we've talked and talked and talked, we've all agreed not to say a word.

I figured I could get a job at a filling station somewhere, putting gas and oil in people's cars. I ...

Good Morning!" said Bilbo, and he meant it. The sun was shining, and the grass was very green. But G...

[M]rs. Miniver was beginning to feel more than a little weary of exchanging ideas (especially politi...

My idea of good company, Mr. Eliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great ...

Playing is just about feeling. Playing isn't necessarily about misery. Playing isn't necessarily abo...

Communication is now often experienced as a superhuman phenomenon that towers above individuals. A n...

Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something ...

Want to play hangman? asks Theophile, and I ache to tell him that I have enough on my plate playing ...

So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's un...

[Jules] slides into a seat beside me with her hot lunch tray, sighing. “Four hours, thirty-six minut...

I don't know what he means by that, but I nod and smile at him. You'd be surprised at how far that r...

We fall back into silence. I look around XO Café and notice that chatter happens mostly at tables wh...

In the best conversations, you don't even remember what you talked about, only how it felt. It felt ...

Life seemed even more of a guessing game than usual.

She felt that her speech was voicing the incoherency her thoughts, and stopped abruptly.

The sad thing is that I feel so boring because 'Twilight' is literally how every conversation I have...

Words suck. I mean, every thing has been said. I can't remember the last real interesting conversati...

We can't have democracy if we're having to protect you and our users from the government over stuff ...

And there you go again, that tone in your voice, never a word out of place, but your tone says clear...

Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for con...

If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.

He disliked contradiction, and still more, arguments that were continually skipping from one thing t...

Everyone had something disparaging to say about the unfortunate Maltyshcheva, and the conversation b...

Debate is masculine conversation is feminine.

In the middle of a conversation, someone says to me out of the blue: "I wish you luck." I am astonis...

There is nothing that makes me happier than sitting around the dinner table and talking until the ca...

Past conversations were slowly realigning in Blue's head, taking on new shades of meaning as they di...

The art of conversation lies in listening

The notion that the only way you can critically engage with a person’s ideas is to take a shot at th...

The future of communicating with customers rests in engaging with them through every possible channe...

He was one of that class of men who, apart from a scientific career in which they may well have prov...

There is nothing like desire for obstructing any resemblance between what one says and what one has ...

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation...

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.

...I only told you about it because I thought I might get a laugh out of you for once even if it was...

Betsy liked to talk. Her father always said she got it from her mother, and her mother always said s...

An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public.

I'm smart and I can be really funny and interesting and I can go toe-to-toe with anybody in a conver...

He was through with this conversation. As a rule, they tended to avoid questions like "How sane are ...

The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.

Most bad," the host concluded. "If you ask me, something sinister lurks in men who avoid wine, games...

Tamina serves coffee and calvados to the customers (there aren't all that many, the room being alway...

Love without conversation is impossible.

Chester nods all the way through this, but does not rudely interrupt Randy as a younger nerd would. ...

Literature does not occur in a vacuum. It cannot be a monologue. It has to be a conversation, and ne...

Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas, they ...

My doctor says I must not have any serious conversation after seven [o'clock]. It makes me talk in m...

What ho!" I said."What ho!" said Motty."What ho! What ho!""What ho! What ho! What ho!"After that it ...

I should have been bolder and kissed her at the end. I should have been more cautious. I had talked ...

Bit by bit, I found myself relaxing into the conversation. Kitty had a natural talent for drawing pe...

The day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine every possible conversation, you promi...

He knew very well that the great majority of human conversation is meaningless. A man can get throug...

She thinks, I'm telling him who I am. He's interested in who I am. That is true, but I am curious ab...

For, let me tell you that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me are the pl...

A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've bee...

In good company there is never such discourse between two, across the table, as takes place when you...

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

Four days, eight days, twelve days passed, and he was invited to teas, to suppers, to lunches. They ...

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues. That i...

It's all right to hold a conversation, but you should let go of it now and then.

The conversation was mesmerizing, not for its content but for the cadences of the talk, the rhythm w...