Quotes about Conversation

But, he feigned not to notice the two strangers, and fell into discourse with the triumvirate of customers who were drinking at the counter.

You are a little low this evening, Frederick,' said the Father of the Marshalsea. 'Anything the matter?

If I could have known Cicero, and been his friend, and talked with him in his retirement at Tusculum (beau-ti-ful Tusculum l), I could have died contented.

If you ask, "What is the use of praying?" I answer, "Woe is me if I do not pray!" I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent somewhere. I pray because it is easier to pray than not to pray. It is the soul that prays first: the tongue wags afterwards. It is no small privilege that we have of talking with God, and of laying our troubles upon him so as to feel relieved of them.

I can hardly tell you how boring it is to interview almost every politician among the multitudes I have ever interviewed (journalists can't say this, because if people knew how boring politicians were they wouldn't read what we write), how dead the conversation feels, how bald, flat, uninteresting the message is.

Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.

If you would stick to the concrete, and put your discoveries in the form of entertaining anecdotes about your adventures with women, your conversation would be easier to follow.

What greater dignity can be put upon a mortal man, than to converse with his Maker, and to walk with God every day?

In a group when the conversation takes a trend that is upsetting, try injecting peaceful ideas into the talk.

Negative conversation adversely affects circumstances. Certainly talk of a tense and nervous nature enhances inner agitation.

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.

When bankers get together for dinner, they discuss Art. When artists get together for dinner, they discuss Money