Quotes About Conversation

Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.

The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.

Few are agreeable in conversation, because each thinks of what he intends to say than of what others are saying, and listens no more when he himself has a chance to speak.

The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than about what others are saying, and we never listen when we are eager to speak.

Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't you think?

He talked to himself because there weren't many people as learned as he, and he liked to talk to learned people.

habit of speaking in paragraphs.

We had so many of those meaningless banter phrases, those icebreakers... they were meaningless-but without malice of harm, and they helped awkward people get over their embarrassment at being alive.

I told her tea bags were just a convenience for people with busy lives and she said no one is so busy they can't take time to make a decent cup of tea and if you are that busy you don't deserve a decent cup of tea for what is it all about anyway? Are we put into this world to be busy or to chat over a nice cup of tea?

Although Ivar dominated every conversation, he did so with a modest, almost self-deprecating air. He seemed apologetic, even embarrassed, that he knew all these things. As he moved among the passengers, he left them feeling that they, not he, had been asking all the questions. Even as Ivar held forth, they wanted him to say more, not less.

One way to prevent conversation from being boring is to say the wrong thing.

I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.

Die Nacht nach diesem Gespräch konnte ich nicht schlafen. Als Blanka nach Hause kam, schloß ich die Augen und rührte mich nicht. Aber ich mußte ununterbrochen an Irma und Margareta denken.

Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk in order to provide articles for people who can't read.

Don't be afraid to talk to yourself. It's the only way you can be sure somebody's listening.

Father sighed. "Please spare me these arguments of yours." "Whose arguments should I use?

Eavesdropping is such a regular-person activity.

I've been thinking," said the Eldric image. "Ooh, thinking!" I said. "Shall I tell your father?" "Very funny," said Eldric, but he was laughing.

With the advance of refrigeration, I hope that along with the frozen foods someday we will have frozen conversation. A person will be able to keep a frozen promise indefinitely.

Cocktail party: A gathering held to enable forty people to talk about themselves at the same time. The man who remains after the liquor is gone is the host.

During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk.

When a conversation seems hard, when it makes you nervous, when you feel at risk or on edge, remember this core lesson: Conversation is always an act of creativity. We don't have to just be participants in, or victims of, conversations. We can be the makers of the conversations that matter most.

When we do the work of translating and simplifying complex terminology, we allow people to see their agency in the process—to take responsibility for joining and shaping the conversation and for turning words into action.