Conversation Quotes

"The lower one speaks the closer a woman listens."
-Marcel Achard

"Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed."
-Robert C. Gallagher

"A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet."
-Truman Capote

"It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then."
-Richard Armour

"Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather."
-Anna Jameson

"If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating."
-Leigh Hunt

"Men are capable of talking hours on end over only one subject, women do it and don't even require a subject."
-Curt Goetz

"Conversation is the art of speaking without thinking."
-Victor De Kowa

"Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius."
-Edward Gibbon

"Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation."
-Mark Twain

"The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter."
-Sir Winston Churchill

"I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation."
-George Bernard Shaw

"The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech."
-George Bernard Shaw

"Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation."
-Benjamin Disraeli

"Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him."
-Dr. Thomas Fuller

"There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees."
-Michel de Montaigne

"There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all."
-Rebecca West

"Chamber music -- a conversation between friends."
-Catherine Drinker Bowen

"Do not start a conversation with negative information. You won't go anywhere with it."
-Nancy Friedman

"After Labor Day, we'll have a conversation with voters about what Proposition 75 is really about."
-Sarah Leonard

"What is reading, but silent conversation."
-Charles Lamb

"You could see it. He was always talking to himself. He would be as close as you and I, and you could see him carrying on a conversation with himself."
-Tim Walker

"Giving half answers won't make the conversation half as long."
-Dave Johnson

"It's a conversation I never wanted to have."
-Drew Perkins

"He was possibly the brightest human being I've ever engaged in conversation."
-Gretta Bader

"Conversation is food for the soul."
-Mexican Proverb