Quotes About Conversation

Do you think we'll be waiting long?" Valkyrie asked, keeping her voice low. "The last time we were in this building, we accused the Grand Mage of being a traitor," Skulduggery said. "Yes, I think we'll be waiting long.

How have you been? You're still as beautiful as ever." "As are you, my dear. I love your shoes." "Aren't they delightful? I saw them and just had to have them. Their previous owner wasn't too keen to let them go, but I can be very persuasive when I want to be." "Is that her blood on the left one?" "And no amount of scrubbing will get it out, either.

That was a good day for me," Skulduggery said. "I didn't have to hit anyone. I didn't have to shoot anyone. I just sat around and talked to my good friend and partner, Valkyrie Cain.

What kind of trees are those?" she asked Milo. "Green," he said, and that's how the conversation ended.

I thought you wanted me to talk more," he said when he noticed her silence. "Can't have it both ways, Stephanie. I can't be quiet when you want to sulk and chatty when you want to chat. That's not how it works. That's not how I work." "I'm not sulking." "Well, you're doing something with your face that resembles sulking. Are you glowering? You might be glowering. Glowering is like sulking only scarier.

You hear things." "Do I?" "People talk to you." "I am very approachable.

Kenspeckle: Have you eaten? Valkyrie: One of your assistants brought me a burger for breakfast Kenspeckle: I meant, have you eaten sensibly? Valkyrie: I was very sensible while I was eating the burger. Didn't miss my mouth once

Just a few questions for you, Mr. Dunne. Or Kenny. Can I call you Kenny? I feel we've become friends in these past few seconds. Can I call you Kenny?

Shakra scowled. "You're a moron." "Being rude does not make you more intelligent that I." "No, being more intelligent than you makes me more intelligent than you, you goat-brained simpleton." "I did not come here to be insulted." "What, do you have somewhere special to go for that kind of thing?

I'm almost finished," said Wilhelm, wiping out a line with his sleeve and drawing over it. "I never doubted you for a moment," said Vex, then looked at Aurora and spoke more softly. "I actually doubted him the whole time. He's really not very good." Wilhelm turned. "I'm standing right in front of you. I can hear literally every sound you make." "Wilhelm, please," said Vex, "this is a private conversation.

Detective Harris smiled good-naturedly as he sat down. "Other Inspector?" "The one who just left." "Hmm? Who was that, then?" "Detective Inspector Me." "Detective Inspector You?" "No, Me. That's his... He said that's his name. You just passed him. He was with a girl on work experience and a boy with spiky hair." Harris blinked at him. "I didn't pass anyone, Mr Dunne, and I'm the only Detective Inspector on duty right now." Kenny stared at him. "Then... then who the hell was I just speaking to?

Valkyrie dried her hands. "I'm not going to die anytime soon, Clarabelle." "I like your coat by the way." "Thanks." "It's a little small for you though." "Yeah." "Can I have it when you're dead?

Excuse me," said Skulduggery, "I hate to interrupt, but this conversation is boring me." "Because it isn't about you," said Fletcher. "That is indeed why it's boring." "We'll

I'm about to make myself some tea," she said, leading the way to the kitchen. "Your dog is gnawing on my head." "She's just happy to see you.

In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge; nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them.

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

Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pretending.

Whoever interrupts the conversation of others to make a display of his fund of knowledge, makes notorious his own stock of ignorance.

Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know.

Conversation is not a search after knowledge, but an endeavor at effect.

Conversation with a friend will only bear good fruit of knowledge when both think only of the matter under consideration and forget that they are friends.

A sick man that gets talking about himself a woman that gets talking about her baby and an author that begins reading out of his own book never know when to stop.

Raw, real human conversation can be the most direct path to greater awareness and stronger relationships, even when it's unrehearsed and clumsy-perhaps especially when it's unrehearsed and clumsy!

Change comes from listening, learning, caring and conversation.