Quotes About Conversation

I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever that I sometimes don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

MRS. ALLONBY. It is only fair to tell you beforehand he has got no conversation at all. LADY STUTFIELD. I adore silent men. MRS ALLONBY. Oh, Ernest isn't silent. He talks the whole time. But he has got no conversation. What he talks about I don't know. I haven't listened to him for years.

it would be a very good thing if people were taught how to speak. Language is the noblest instrument we have, either for the revealing or the concealing of thought; talk itself is a sort of spiritualized action; and conversation is one of the loveliest of the arts.

If it was my business, I wouldn't talk about it. It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbroker's do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

I love talking about nothing, father. It is the only thing I know anything about.

I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. Then you should certainly lecture on Philosophy, said the Dragon-fly

I like hearing myself talk.  It is one of my greatest pleasures.  I often have long conversations all by myself

My doctor says I must not have any serious conversation after seven [o'clock]. It makes me talk in my sleep.

The well bred contradict other people. the wise contradict themselves.

I like hearing myself talk.  It is one of my greatest pleasures.  I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Everybody one meets is a paradox nowadays. It is a great bore. It makes society so obvious.

Did you hear what I was playing, Lane? I didn't think it polite to listen, sir.

LADY BRACKNELL I had some crumpets with Lady Harbury, who seems to me to be living entirely for pleasure now. ALGERNON I hear her hair has turned quite gold from grief.

The post on her left was occupied by Mr. Erskine of Treadley, an old gentleman of considerable charm and culture, who had fallen, however, into bad habits of silence, having, as he explained once to Lady Agatha, said everything that he had to say before he was thirty.

If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it in conversation.

Oh! talk to every woman as if you loved her and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.

I never talk during music--at least, during good music. If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it in conversation.

I am getting rather astonishing in my Italian conversation. I believe I talk a mixture of Dante and the worst modern slang.

Women are wonderfully practical,' murmured Lord Henry, 'much more practical than we are. In situations of that kind we often forget to say anything about marriage, and they always remind us.

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. 

I feel I must come with you. And will you talk to me all the time? No one talks so wonderfully as you do.

Cecily: "Miss Prism says that all good looks are a snare" Algernon: "They are a snare that every sensible man would like to be caught in." Cecily: "Oh, I don't think I would care to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.

Do you smoke? Jack.  Well, yes, I must admit I smoke. Lady Bracknell.  I am glad to hear it.  A man should always have an occupation of some kind.  There are far too many idle men in London as it is.