Conversation Quotes

• Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.

• Conversation is food for the soul.

• Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations.

• I don't know how to have casual conversation. You think you're talking about one thing, and either you are and it's incredibly boring, or you're not because it's subtext and you need a decoder ring.

• It's always difficult to make conversation with a drunk, and there's no denying it, the sober are at a disadvantage with him.

• Spoken words evaporated into the air just as easily as burned letters, but the sound of them seemed immortal. It was as if a word spoken could not be destroyed.

• I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

• Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

• Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.

• Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.

• The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

• He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.

• Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, 'there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.' A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.

• One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.

• Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.

• Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses.

• Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation.

• Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know.

• Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.

• Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.

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