Quotes About Conversation

Bean sighed inwardly. It never failed. Whenever he had any conversation with Ender, it turned into an argument.

She [Queen Isabella] will look at you as women look at men. She will judge you as women judge men. Not on the strength of their arguments, and not on their cleverness, or their prowess in battle, but rather on the force of their character; the intesity of their passion, their strength of soul, their compassion, and, ah, this above all...their conversation.

He had thought that he valued his solitude; now, though, with solitude forced upon him, he felt an urgent need to talk, to be heard by someone, as if he could not be sure he even existed without someone's conversation as evidence.

It was a new thing in the world, to have someone to talk to who was not substantially yourself.

By the time they got home, they were both thoroughly bilingual in cursing. *

And there it was. The moment a man answered her right back instead of getting his dander up, why, she flashed a smile fit to charm the warts off a toad.

The refreshments leave something to be desired." "Like what?" asked Banshee. "Refreshments," said Ezekiel.

Bean sighed inwardly. It never failed. Whenever he had any conversation with Ender, it turned into an argument. Bean hated it.

I don't pray really, because I don't want to bore God.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.

I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.

Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes

I like talking to a brick wall- it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me!

If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left. ALGERNON: We have. JACK: I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about? ALGERNON: The fools? Oh! about the clever people of course. JACK: What fools.

When bankers get together for dinner, they discuss Art. When artists get together for dinner, they discuss Money

Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are.

Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous.

I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.

Lady Bracknell. Good afternoon, dear Algernon, I hope you are behaving very well. Algernon. I'm feeling very well, Aunt Augusta. Lady Bracknell. That's not quite the same thing. In fact the two things rarely go together.

The bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation