Quotes About Conversation

Old men only lie in wait for people to ask them to talk. Then they rattle on like a rusty elevator wheezing up a shaft.

Sometimes you can hear them talk, other times you can't. All the same old cliches, is that a woman or a man?

You find out more about God from the Moral Law than from the univerise in general just as you find out more about a man by listening to his conversation than by looking at a house he has built.

In general I do not draw well with literary men -- not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication.

Few are qualified to shine in company, but it is in most men's power to be agreeable.

Whenever I have talked to anyone at too great length, I am like a man who has drunk too much, and ashamed, doesn't know where to put himself.

There is such a torture, happily unknown to ancient tyranny, as talking a man to death. Marcus Aurelius advises to assent readily to great talkers--in hopes, I suppose, to put an end to the argument.

Depend upon it, sir, it is when you come close to a man in conservation that you discover what his real abilities are; to make a speech in a public assembly is a knack.

A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.

I don't have a lot to share with other men. My heart sinks when I get into a taxi and someone starts talking to me about football.

It was useless to try to corner a man who told stories. It was like trying to drink all the water in a lake to get at a bright pebble on the bottom of it.

A man is like a phonograph with half-a-dozen records. You soon get tired of them all; and yet you have to sit at table whilst he reels them off to every new visitor.

Say less than the other fellow and listen more than you talk; for when a man's listening he isn't telling on himself and he's flattering the fellow who is.

A business man's conversation should be regulated by fewer and simpler rules than any other function of the human animal. They are: Have something to say. Say it. Stop talking.

It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing

There is a golden opportunity here for Christian men to assume a national leadership role by engaging in conversation with women.

I probably have more male friends that talk about us in a way that doesn't thrill me. I sometimes get a bit surprised when females talk like that around men.

A man may do very well with a very little knowledge, and scarce be found out in mixed company; everybody is so much more ready to produce his own, than to call for a display of your acquisitions.

That'd be good. That'd be a right good laugh, man. Ye cannae catch me shuttin' up, man

Women think that men don't talk about their feelings with guys. We do talk to friends about relationships, but it's succinct - 10 minutes, then we move on.

The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas.

I think it's kind of great, to be honest. I'll never do another film [like Swiss Army Man] where I get to talk about those things, so I might as well enjoy it while I can.

So yo then man what's your story?

Bill Pearson is definitely a man to talk to, especially in the afternoon when he's had a couple of drinks because he's got so many stories and anecdotes.