Quotes About Conversation

The great charm of conversation consists less in the display of one's own wit and intelligence than in the power to draw forth the resources of others.

Interviews can be stimulating. It depends on the intelligence of the interviewer.

The inquirer after holiness should associate with those whose intelligence will instruct him; whose example will guide him; whose conversation will inspire him; whose cautions will warn him.

Hello, luv, " he says through a thick curtain of blue hair. "Hope I'm...interrupting.

The only obligation I recognize is to say what I believe to be true [ ] and to say it with kindness. I believe that is how a Christian conversation should proceed.

Luego éste prosiguió, era de esos hombres que no pierden el hilo, suelen ser personajes temibles—:

Know what message (strengths/accomplishments) you want to get across during the interview. Answer questions in two parts—what they want to know and what you want them to know.

Most people are glad to talk about their successes.

La verdad surge de la discusión entre amigos. DAVID HUME

I wished I'd thought of that last before I'd departed. It might have been good advice to give out in my final days in Copper Downs, had I been able to fit such a conversation in between my busy schedule of murder, arson, and funerary rites.

I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them.

Oh, this time I was doing the gossiping. You should really dismiss me for disloyalty, not to mention the disrespect I'm showing right now by talking to you like this.

His eyes tightened a little at the corners. "I told you a

The host took care to produce one or another of these whenever the current subjects seemed about used up, so that the conversation gathered new life and at the same time steered clear of political arguments, which are hindersome to both ingestion and digestion.

One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.

It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.

trincasse, a tagarela Foi valer-se

T'as parlé le berli du berlu à la corbelle du corbeau ?

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself-like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.

La conversation devint plus générale, plus variée, plus insignifiante…

Obviously, insights gained from gnosis are rarely welcomed as topics of conversation at social gatherings. To break the silence and speak about what you know to be your spiritual reality, or tell another about a numinous experience or your philosophical insights or take up a religious vocation becomes possible for many women only when they are over fifty and have found friends with spiritual depth.

Drummond appreciated his guest's initial silence, his respect for the ancient, sacred act of imbibing. Drink first, talk later.

A la fin du dîner, elle l'avait si religieusement écouté qu'il la trouvait intelligente.