Quotes About Conversation

A man of no conversation should smoke.

Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

A man may forgive many wrongs, but he cannot easily forgive anyone who makes it plain that his conversation is tedious.

The man of petty ambition if invited to dinner will be eager to be set next his host.

Marry a man / woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversational skills will be as important as any other.

Hey man, can you talk to dolphins and pilot whales with that huge forehead of yours?

I find more and more that I am a man of the 1920s. I still expect something exciting. Drinks, animated conversation, gaiety: the uninhibited exchange of ideas.

I'm not talking to anyone, I'm delivering a monologue. It's the inebriated man's prerogative.

A delicacy of taste is favorable to love and friendship, by confining our choice to few people, and making us indifferent to the company and conversation of the greater part of men.

No man comes out of his own memorandum of conversation looking second best.

When a man tells you what people are saying about you, tell him what people are saying about him; that will immediately take his mind off your troubles.

I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man.

A bacteriologist is a man whose conversation always start with the germ of an idea.

As men do walk a mile, women should talk an hour, After supper. 'Tis their exercise.

Twitter is the perpetual cocktail party where everyone is talking at once but nobody is saying anything.

Mental prayer is, as I see it, simply a friendly intercourse and frequent solitary conversation with Him who, as we know, loves us.

many people are good at talking and bad at understanding

for mental prayer is nothing else, in my opinion, but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him Who, we know, loves us.

G'day, mate," said the voice on the other end of the line. "It's Stevo calling from Australia. How you going?" Well, for starters, I was going without breathing for a few moments.

Some years ago, I read an article about two people in the arts (alas, I can't remember who they were) who'd been married for many, many years. Asked for the secret of their long partnership, they said: "We fell straight into conversation when we met, and we haven't come to the end of that conversation yet." I can't think of a better model for marriage than that. Or of a narrative more romantic . . . .

When Brian told me he grew up in New Mexico, I told him I thought it is cool that people from other countries play football. He corrected me on my geography and agreed to sit down with me anyway.

Profanity is the common crutch of the conversational cripple. —DAVID KEUCK

Conversation itself has rules, which is why the conversationalist who insists that others must speak his language is a boor. To have a voice of one's own is to acknowledge other voices.