Quotes about Conversation
A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
- Henry Ward Beecher
All His glory and beauty come from within, and there He delights to dwell, His visits there are frequent, His conversation sweet, His comforts refreshing; and His peace passing all understanding.
- Thomas a Kempis
Who would not spout the family teapot in order to talk with Keats for an hour about poetry, or with Jane Austen about the art of fiction?
- Virginia Woolf
When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.
- Abraham Lincoln
Listen. Don't just wait to talk.
- Donald Trump
Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
- William Hazlitt
The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
- William Howard Taft
Observe, farther, how the same doctrine is taught by St. Peter: "As He which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation." [1 Pet. i. 15]
- William Law
Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
God requires his people to shine as lights in the world. It is not merely the ministers who are required to do this, but every disciple of Christ. Their conversation should be heavenly.
- Ellen White
I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.
- Paul Tillich