~ Conversation Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered.

Alfred North Whitehead

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Great talkers are trying to fill the gap between themselves and others but only widen it.

Mason Cooley

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]You never say a word of yourself dear Lady Grey. You have that dreadful sin of anti-egotism.

Sydney Smith

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.

Henry S. Haskins

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]He (Macaulay) has occasional flashes of silence that make his conversation perfectly delightful.

Sydney Smith

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues. That is all.

Rebecca West

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition no vanity but a calm quiet interchange of sentiments.

Samuel Johnson

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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