Quotes from Dorothy Nevill

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.

For a few political turncoats there is real excuse. One can hardly blame those whom one ministry have seen fit to throw overboard for having the strength to swim to the other side.

A valuable qualification of a modern politician seems to be a capacity for concealing or explaining away the truth.

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

It is, I think, a good deal owing to the preponderance of the commercial element in Society that conversation has sunk to its present dull level of conventional chatter.

If all men and women were kept at some useful employment there would be less sorrow and wickedness in the world.

conversation is now pretty well a lost art.

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.