Quotes About Conversation

If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.

My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.

Men speake of the faire, as things went with them there.

And it is always the humble man who talks too much; the proud man watches himself too closely.

A man should think less of what he eats and more with whom he eats because no food is so satisfying as good company.

An ancient father says that a dog we know is better company than a man whose language we do not understand.

You are a sick, sick man," I told him. "Thank you," Ben replied, looking modest.

I fancy the character of a poet is in every country the same,--fond of enjoying the present, careless of the future; his conversation that of a man of sense, his actions those of a fool.

Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you.

LADY BRACKNELL: Do you smoke? JACK: Well, yes, I must admit I smoke. LADY BRACKNELL: I'm glad to hear it. A man should always have an occupation of some kind.

A right rule for a club would be,-Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic.

Man is the broken giant, and in all his weakness both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation with nature.

It is an impertinent and unreasonable fault in conversation for one man to take up all the discourse.

It is impossible to communicate with Schumann. The man is hopeless; he doesn't talk at all.

MEN, Charlene said. Leave that to you! Willa quipped.

The necessity of labor and conversation with many men and things to the scholar is rarely well remembered.

I hardly know an intellectual man, even, who is so broad and truly liberal that you can think aloud in his society.

The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.

Man has long found solace in good talk to offset bad conduct.

The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you.

Jane Austen we know never let two men converse alone in any novel because what they said would be unknown to her.

There's a classic story I tell about when I did the Man Show about the retarded conversations that you have with the executive producers and the network.

Reasonable men are the best dictionaries of conversation.

Show me the man who isn't interested in discussing himself.