Quotes About Conversation

I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise grew discouraged and traveled on.

Marriage is the permanent conversation between two people who talk over everything and everyone until death breaks the record.

In God's intention, a meet and happy conversation is the chiefest and noblest end of marriage.

I'm looking forward to talking to Bill Parcells, too, and to seeing how that marriage with Jerry Jones goes.

I've got to go. That's one of the penalties of being a doctor. I never seem to finish a conversation.

A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.

Wise men listen and laugh, while fools talk.

The maintenance man is moving the thermostat in our office today. I started talking with him about the

A Every man has a king and a fool in him and the one you talk to reacts.

Part of the joy of dancing is conversation. Trouble is, some men can't talk and dance at the same time.

Men in plural […] can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and themselves.

A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.

It does not take long to tell where a man's treasure is. In fifteen minutes' conversation with most men, you can tell whether their treasures are on the earth or in Heaven.

It tires me to talk to rich men. You expect a man of millions, the head of a great industry, to be a man worthhearing; but as a rule they don't know anything outside their own business.

There's an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.

In a few years, men will be able to communicate more effectively through a machine than face to face. That is a rather startling thing to say, but it is our conclusion.

Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he wishes to hear, not only your conversation, but that of every other person in the room.

Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

I was 23, and he was 86. I saw a very sick man. I just wanted to just talk with him. There was no physical attraction at all. He was very much attracted to me.

I go for really smart guys, ones who are well-read and can banter and argue. Men need to be able to take me out and have a few drinks, but by the end of the night we'll be talking about Nietzsche.

There is a cunning which we in England call "the turning of the cat" in the pan; which is, when that which a man says to another, he says it as if another had said it to him.

Find me a man who's interesting enough to have dinner with and I'll be happy.

A deaf and dumb person who sees two men in conversation - may nevertheless understand from the attitudes and gestures of the speakers, how well their discussion is getting along.