Quotes About Conversation

I was dreading the dinner because I knew that once I found myself in the dining-room seated (...), it would no longer be possible to remain a silent spectator, I should be obliged to try and think of things to say. It had been drummed into me all my life (...) that silence at meal times is anti-social. -'So long as you chatter, Fanny, it's of no consequence what you say (...)

he liked picking Hector's brains on international subjects, or rather, allowing Hector's brains to flow over him in a glowing lava of thought.

Maurice Baring's

Have the Sauveterres not arrived yet, Sonia?' said Lord Montdore coming up for another cup of tea. There was a movement among the women. They turned their heads like dogs who think they hear somebody unwrapping a piece of chocolate.

All right, keep your hair on,' said the old singer, taking his off and adjusting a curl. 'Have another drink'.

I have for a long time felt that our society is becoming more and more fractured and divisive and that you could go a whole day without really talking to another person. If you give people a good book to talk about, you can build a community out of a diverse group. A common language grows out of it.

That's the thing about Oxford. You go for a drink in a pub with some guy and next thing he's quoting Hamlet.

I am beginning to feel the need of a glass of wine to fortify myself against this conversation.

Temeraire:) Can one hire a translator to say things properly? Yes; they are called lawyers, Tharkay said, and laughed softly to himself.

I don't know why Americans won't just talk about the weather like reasonable people

In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.

You young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop talking.

Driven by a wish to save Tomás from a life of penury and misunderstanding, Fermin had decided that he needed to develop my friend's latent conversational and social skills. Like the good ape he is, man is a social animal, characterized by cronyism, nepotism, corruption, and gossip. That's the intrinsic blueprint for our ethical behavior.

Boys my age are boring. They have nothing to say and half of them seem like complete idiots. I was going to say that they didn't improve with age but didn't want to spoil her illusions.

It's difficult to find a good conversationalist.

People talk too much, humans aren't descended from monkeys, they're descended from parrots.

Are you an idiot?' she asked, in perfect Spanish. 'I'm in training,' I admitted.

A story is an endless labyrinth of words, images and spirits, conjured up to show us the invisible truth about ourselves. A story is, after all, a conversation between the narrator and the reader, and just as narrators can only relate as far as their ability will permit, so too readers can only read as far as what is already written in their souls.

Hablar es de necios; callar es de cobardes; esscuchar es de sabios

People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.

Qué hora es, Isabella? —Deben de ser las diez de la mañana. —¿Y eso significa? —… que no hay sarcasmo hasta el mediodía —replicó Isabella.

we still repeat that walk to the breakwater at dawn, where we solve the world's problems.

In Martín's novel, the book that had kept Fermín company all those months, one of the characters swore that the best way of disarming the authorities was to speak to them first before they addressed you.

I don't like telephones. I like to see people's faces when they speak and for them to see mine." "In your case I'm not sure that's a good idea. Have you looked at yourself in the mirror recently?" "That's your department.