~ Conversation Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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