Quotes About Conversation

It takes two people to say a thing--a sayer and a sayee. The one is just as essential to any true saying as the other.

Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.

Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.

That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments

When the hoary Sage replied,"Come, my lad, and drink some beer."

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.

This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.

But Lord! how everybody's looks, and discourse in the street, is of death, and nothing else; and few people going up and down, that the town is like a place distressed and forsaken.

Though he be a fool, yet he keeps much company, and will tell all he sees or hears, and so a man may understand what the common talk of the town is.

He wanted to talk and had nothing to say.

Who am I talking to other than myself here? Someone I hope who at least knows my languages.

It's Bo Jonas. Bo is short for Beauregard. Can you spell Beauregard?" Denny frowned. "B-o-r-r ..." "It's short for Bobby," Hogg said.

Why don't you and I have a nice penetrating man-to-man conversation?

Do you even know the difference between a girder and a joist?' he asks pompously. 'Ah, well, yes,' answers the Irishman in his laconic way. 'Goethe wrote Faust and Joyce wrote Ulysses.

Personally, I'm waiting for caller IQ.

Now I am shut up with his mother on Bramble farm and she is no better for conversation than prune whip

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Here you go, dear."" The corners of Mrs. Colbert's mouth curled up. "You like meat, don't you?" Emily blinked. Was it her, or did that statement seem...loaded? She checked Issac for his reaction, but he was innocently selecting a roll from a wicker basket. "Uh, thanks." Emily said, pulling the platter toward her. She did like meat. The kind you, um, eat.

Tell me this isn't happening," she murmured. "I was about to ask you the same thing," Aria said.

Sutton, I have to talk to you," Mr. Mercer said... "I'm sorry," she said preemptively. "You don't even know what I'm going to say yet.

You want to throw your life away for some stupid conversation we had? Like we're the first people ever who talk about people we want dead.

It saddens me how social media has changed the way we interact with one another.

The moon was low but not full. The men set out along the dock in conversation. As they dropped onto the dark beach, Simmons declared, 'There can be no better place in the world than this.' Henderson had to agree. The beach was beautiful. The stars lit the sand and balmy air rode in as the waves washed up on paradise