Quotes About Conversation

People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.

You never see a French person eating alone.

Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.

Im always happy when Im left alone, but if somebody comes and is nice, then we talk.

A great way to be left alone on the subway is to appear to be deep in conversation with a small knife.

Why did you take me down this road if you don't want to walk with me? Why do you exist all alone, when you could just talk to me?

Can I say hello?Why?I don't want you to be alone!

Out of anger comes controversy, out of controversy comes conversation, out of conversation comes action.

I had heard it all before—most of us had—but John T. had never heard any of it, because he usually didn't listen to anybody but himself. He was shocked. For almost a full minute, Sam having spoken to his satisfaction and John T. unable to speak at all, they just looked at each other.

In a conversation, you always expect a reply. And if you honor the other party to the conversation, if you honor the otherness of the other party, you understand that you must not expect always to receive a reply that you foresee or a reply that you will like.

The conversation thus established was a poor thing, Tol knew, so far as his own participation in it went, but it was something to go on. It gave him hope. And now I want to tell youhow this courtship, conducted for so long in secret in Tol's mind alone, became public. This is the story of Miss Minnie's first consent, the beginning of their story together, which is one of the dear possessions of the history of Port William.

Do you ever think if people heard our conversations they'd lock us up? All the time.

A hunter, with a second hunter nearby, asked me what I was looking for up there. I said I liked his dog better than I liked him.

TALIBAN-ESQUE Any behavior that imposes the beliefs of one person on everyone else. Conversations with the Taliban-esque are impossible. They aren't even conversations. WIth them, it's my way or no way.

Sometimes you are garrulous, Taita.' Pharaoh was less than captivated by my lecture on the palace architecture. 'Get on

accustomed to lure him into speaking of himself. But she put them far less spontaneously, far less adroitly, than usual. Her one all-absorbing anxiety in entering that room was not an anxiety to be trifled with.

But you make allowances for women; we all talk nonsense. Good

There are three things that none of the young men of the present generation can do. They can't sit over their wine, they can't play at whist, and they can't pay a lady a compliment.

You live a great deal too much in the society of women. And you have contracted two very bad habits in consequence. You have learnt to talk nonsense seriously, and you have got into a way of telling fibs for the pleasure of telling them.

As a general rule, political talk appears to me to be of all talk the most dreary and the most profitless.

Women can resist a man's love, a man's fame, a man's personal appearance, and a man's money; but they cannot resist a man's tongue, when he knows how to talk to them.

heard mother speak of him. Father? Ah, dear!

Its title was, A Word With You On Your Cap-Ribbons. My

A book is like a quarrel. One word leads to another, and may erupt in blood or print, irrevocably.