Quotes about Conversation
In the early 60s, you read your essays to your supervisor rather than hand them in. I was both lazy and clever, and realised I didn't need to write essays at all, I could simply talk with some notes in front of me.
- David Starkey
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 is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
- Samuel Johnson
Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding.
- Samuel Johnson
I would rather be seated between any two women than any two men at a dinner party.
- John Updike
You find out more about God from the Moral Law than from the univerise in general just as you find out more about a man by listening to his conversation than by looking at a house he has built.
- CS Lewis
A man is like a phonograph with half-a-dozen records. You soon get tired of them all; and yet you have to sit at table whilst he reels them off to every new visitor.
- George Bernard Shaw
There is a golden opportunity here for Christian men to assume a national leadership role by engaging in conversation with women.
- Carolyn Custis James
Conversation is the image of the mind. As the man is, so is his talk.
- Publilius Syrus
I hardly know an intellectual man, even, who is so broad and truly liberal that you can think aloud in his society.
- Henry David Thoreau
We should talk over the lessons of the day, or lose them in Music, Chess, or the merriments of our family companions.
- Thomas Jefferson
From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way.
- George Bernard Shaw