Quotes About Conversation

Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.

In truth, men speak too much of danger.

Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood.

A woman uses about 20,000 words per day while a man uses about 7,000.

Every man should know that his conversations, his correspondence, and his personal life are private.

A lot of times in life, women want to talk, but men don't want to listen, and if they do want to listen, they turn it back to themselves.

Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.

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

Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

Dinners are defined as 'the ultimate act of communion;' men that can have communion in nothing else, can sympathetically eat together, can still rise into some glow of brotherhood over food and wine.

Where men cannot freely convey their thoughts to one another, no other liberty is secure.

The merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.

Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to have anything to say to each other for more than ten minutes at a stretch.

When you speak to a man, look on his eyes; when he speaks to you, look on his mouth.

You know it's hard to hear what a bearded man is saying. He can't speak above a whisker.

Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude.

I would rather be seated between any two women than any two men at a dinner party.

..."And then we played Ping-Pong—" "Not pool? I always assumed he was a billiards man—I mean, it's so handy the way he keeps a stick up his—

Converse, converse, CONVERSE, with living men, face to face, mind to mind-that is one of the best sources of knowledge.

There does not exist a man sufficiently intelligent never to be tiresome.

There is nothing more aggravating than a man who won't talk back - unless it is a woman who won't.

No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.

Onassis was a man who loved to walk, to walk and talk, and he was the kind of man who doesn't go to sleep at night-he talks and talks.