conversation quotes

• A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short. (Andre Maurois) [marriage/conversation]
• A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) [conversation/books]
• I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat. (Antonin Artaud) [suicide/conversation/morning/time]
• For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation. (James Boswell) [think/conversation]
• I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar. (Miguel De Cervantes) [right/conversation]
• There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation! A human being, Hastings, cannot resist the opportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away. (Agatha Christie) [conversation/human/being/personality]
• Silence is one of the great arts of conversation. (Marcus Cicero) [silence/conversation]
• The reading of all good books is like a conversation with all the finest men of past centuries. (Rene Descartes) [reading/books/conversation/men]
• At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament, except they be so incorporated into the body of the world that they contribute something to the sustentation of the whole. (John Donne) [men/conversation/morals/soul & body]
• Conversation enriches the understanding; but solitude is the school of genius. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [conversation/understanding/solitude/school]
• In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step, using every time an old boulder, yet never setting his foot on an old place. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [conversation/words/people/time]
• Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [conversation/art/mankind]
• What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation. (Anatole France) [conversation]
• The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken to what is said and to answer to the purpose. (Benjamin Franklin) [conversation]
• 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. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [conversation]
• A collections of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [conversation]
• Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food. (William Hazlitt) [conversation/food]
• In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge. (George Herbert) [conversation/more/more/knowledge]
• People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr) [people/conversation]
• Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen. (Samuel Johnson) [conversation]
• The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered but a general effect of pleasing impression. (Samuel Johnson) [conversation]
• Listening well and answering well is one of the greatest perfections that can be obtained in conversation. (Francois De La Rochefoucauld) [conversation]
• The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying. (Francois De La Rochefoucauld) [people/agreeable/conversation/thinking]
• Conceit causes more conversation than wit. (Francois De La Rochefoucauld) [more/conversation]
• A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short. (Andre Maurois) [marriage/conversation]
• Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know. (Andre Maurois) [conversation/words]
• Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love. (H. L. Mencken) [women/pleasure/conversation/men]
• In my opinion, the most fruitful and natural play of the mind is in conversation. I find it sweeter than any other action in life; and if I were forced to choose, I think I would rather lose my sight than my hearing and voice. The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up. (Michel Eyquem De Montaig) [opinion/mind/conversation/find]
• There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees. (Michel Eyquem De Montaig) [conversation/more]
• The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk. (George Santayana) [conversation]
• Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insinuating and insidious something that elicits secrets just like love or liquor. ( Seneca) [conversation/love]

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