Quotes About Conversation

Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves and their auditors.

A psychiatrists is the next man you start talking to after you start talking to yourself.

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

I have always taken the view that one should never hold against a man anything he says after twelve o'clock at night or after a glass or two of anything.

I find it awfully difficult to determine if the habit of talking about oneself at length runs contrary to the basic rules of propriety, or if instead the man exempt from this vice is rare.

The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.

Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditation must form our judgment.

Men shout to avoid listening to one another.

We do not homeschool to avoid wicked people. We homeschool so we wicked people can talk all day about the one Man who wasn't wicked.

A man who has nothing in particular to recommend him discusses all sorts of subjects at random as if he knew everything.

Women can resist a man's love, a man's fame, a man's personal appearance, and a man's money, but they cannot resist a man's tongue when he knows how to talk to them.

A woman says to a man, "I haven't seen you around here." "Yes, I just got out of jail for killing my wife." "So you're single!"

Women speak at an earlier age, more easily, and more agreeably than men; they are accused also of speaking more; this is as it should be, and I willingly change the reproach into a eulogy.

We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.

Not to converse with a man worthy of conversation is to waste the man. To converse with a man not worthy of conversation is to waste words. The wise waste neither men nor words.

I think men know to seduce women though words and conversation and nice gestures. That's much sexier than when a man uses muscle.

No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.

Men never know how tired they are till their wives sit them down for a nice long talk.

There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.

I find that, in general, the amount of sharing men do with each other in one year is about the same as what I share with my female friends while we wait for our cars at the valet.

When the man who knows all about the fruit fly chromosomes finds himself sitting next to an authority on Beowulf, there may be an uneasy silence.

I guess high verbal skills are highest in my list of necessary qualifications for a man - for anyone actually. I like to talk. And I don't necessarily move far, but I move fast.

The chief drawback with men is that they are too talkative.

Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to confront them with their own great themes.