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Conversation QuotesFamous Conversation quotes by popular authors such as Sydney Smith, Agnes Repplier, Samuel Johnson, Mason Cooley, Robert Frost and others.
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[highlight-text]Speech is civilization itself.
Thomas Mann
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[highlight-text]Too much agreement kills a chat.
Eldridge Cleaver
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[highlight-text]The less men think; the more they talk.
Charles de Montesquieu
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[highlight-text]Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.
American Indian Proverb
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[highlight-text]Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
La Rochefoucauld
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[highlight-text]Wit is the salt of conversation not the food.
William Hazlitt
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[highlight-text]Debate is masculine; conversation is feminine.
Louisa May Alcott
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[highlight-text]Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
Cicero
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[highlight-text]When I think over what I have said I envy dumb people.
Seneca
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[highlight-text]Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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[highlight-text]The really important things are said over cocktails and are never done.
Peter F. Drucker
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[highlight-text]Conversation enriches the understanding but solitude is the school of genius.
Edward Gibbon
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[highlight-text]She had lost the art of conversation but not unfortunately the power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw
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[highlight-text]Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.
Margaret Halsey
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[highlight-text]Communication is and should be hell fire and sparks as well as sweetness and light.
Aman Vivian Rakoff
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[highlight-text]Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered.
Alfred North Whitehead
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[highlight-text]Great talkers are trying to fill the gap between themselves and others but only widen it.
Mason Cooley
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[highlight-text]You never say a word of yourself dear Lady Grey. You have that dreadful sin of anti-egotism.
Sydney Smith
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[highlight-text]The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.
Henry S. Haskins
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[highlight-text]He (Macaulay) has occasional flashes of silence that make his conversation perfectly delightful.
Sydney Smith
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[highlight-text]There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues. That is all.
Rebecca West
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[highlight-text]That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition no vanity but a calm quiet interchange of sentiments.
Samuel Johnson
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[highlight-text]While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom the necessity of listening is what makes the right important.
Walter Lippmann
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[highlight-text]Wit is the salt of conversation not the food and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.
Agnes Repplier
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[highlight-text]You can never hope to become a skilled conversationalist until you learn how to put your foot tactfully through the television set.
M. Dale Baughman
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[highlight-text]Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we have been ignorant of their value.
Buckminster Fuller
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[highlight-text]Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
Robert Frost
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[highlight-text]The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
Dorothy Nevill
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[highlight-text]Conversation is the fine art of mutual consideration and communication about matters of common interest that basically have some human importance.
Ordway Tead
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[highlight-text]The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.
Walter Bagehot
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[highlight-text]Never hold any one by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you you had better hold your tongue than them.
Lord Chesterfield
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[highlight-text]He was one of those men whose constitutional inability to make small talk forfeits all one's sympathy and makes one think that social grace is sometimes a moral duty.
James Morris
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[highlight-text]A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas.
Agnes Repplier
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[highlight-text]John Wesley's conversation is good but he is never at leisure. He is always obliged to go at a certain hour. This is very disagreeable to a man who loves to fold his legs and have his talk out as I do.
Samuel Johnson
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[highlight-text]A ceremony of self-wastage - good talkers are miserable they know that they have betrayed themselves that they have taken material which should have a life of its own to disperse it in noises upon the air.
Cyril Connolly
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[highlight-text]Listening is a magnetic and strange thing a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward and we want to sit in their radius. When we are listened to it creates us makes us unfold and expand.
Karl Menninger
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[highlight-text]As I got warmed up and felt perfectly at home in talk I heard myself boasting lying exaggerating. Oh not deliberately far from it. It would be unconvivial and dull to stop and arrest the flow of talk and speak only after carefully considering whether I was telling the truth.
Bernard Berenson
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[highlight-text]People love to talk but hate to listen. Listening is not merely not talking though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous human interest in what is being told us. You can listen like a blank wall or like a splendid auditorium where every sound comes back fuller and richer.
Alice Duer Miller