Quotes About Conversation

Ah, good conversation - there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

My table seats eight, so that's my maximum. Having a small number of guests is the only way to generate good conversation. Besides, your whole house doesn't get wrecked that way.

All good conversation, manners, and action come from a spontaneity which forgets usages and makes the moment great.

The mark of a good conversationalist is not that you can talk a lot. The mark is that you can get others to talk a lot. Thus, good schmoozer's are good listeners, not good talkers.

One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.

Being told that you are good at banter is like being told that you are a good person.

Good listeners are perceived as good conversationalists.

Listening is as important as talking. If you're a good listener, people often compliment you for being a good conversationalist.

I'm not a very good communicator, so maybe that's why I write about talking.

I like being around people who are good conversationalists.

If you can listen well, people will say you're a good conversationalist.

I'm a fabulous date, I make sure I look good, I like hearing what a guy has to say and I make sure the evening is a real laugh. I like to laugh.

Good writing is good conversation, only more so.

It's hard these days to have a conversation, at least it is for me, about [Truman]Capote without "Good Night, and Good Luck" coming up in the same conversation.

I enjoy meeting not only contemporary children, but yesterday's children as well. It's nice to talk about the experiences we shared, they tell me, 'You were a good friend.' That's the warmest part.

Let people speak. Let people disagree. Communicate. Listen. Have high-respect, if not for your opponent, then for your own comportment and conduct as a good listener.

In this world of gossip, a good listener is rarer than a great orator.

A good thing to do when one is sitting, eating, and resting is to have a conversation.

Why d'ye talk to yourself?' 'It assures me of a good listener.

The irrepressible spirit that made his playing seem like good conversation is the Rubinstein legacy for pianists, if they can pick up their heads from the keyboard long enough to claim it.

This is a good place," he said. "There's a lot of liquor," I agreed.

Aimwell: Then you understand Latin, Mr. Bonniface? Bonniface: Not I, Sir, as the saying is, but he talks it so very fast that I'm sure it must be good.

The menus that remain, for me, are really the menus that you have with your good friends, with your wife, with your mother, with your kids. These are what stay in your mind.

Polite Conversation Why, everyone one as they like; as the good woman said when she kissed her cow.