Quotes about Conversation
Find me a man who's interesting enough to have dinner with and I'll be happy.
- Lauren Bacall
In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
- Joseph Addison
The best rules to form a young man are: to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.
- William Temple
A man may be so bold of his predestination, that he forget his conversation.
- Thomas Adams
You know what it's like when two people start a conversation. First one of them does all the talking, the other breaks in with That's just like me, I... and goes on himself until his partner finds a chance to say, That's just like me, I... The That's just like me, I... 's may look like a form of agreement, a way of carrying the other party's idea a step further, but that is an illusion...
- Milan Kundera
Every morning they would talk about the horror of that return to their native land.
- Milan Kundera
He understands that that impatience to speak is also an implacable uninterest in listening
- Milan Kundera
There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful, than that of a continual conversation with God; those only can comprehend it who practice and experience it.
- Brother Lawrence
That we should establish ourselves in a sense of GOD's Presence, by continually conversing with Him. That it was a shameful thing to quit His conversation, to think of trifles and fooleries.
- Brother Lawrence
Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?
- Brigham Young
That we should establish ourselves in a sense of GOD'S Presence, by continually conversing with Him. That it was a shameful thing to quit His conversation, to think of trifles and fooleries. That we should feed
- Brother Lawrence
That we should establish ourselves in a sense of GOD'S Presence, by continually conversing with Him. That it was a shameful thing to quit His conversation, to think of trifles and fooleries.
- Brother Lawrence