Conversation Quotes

Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.

Mark Haddon

The conversation was mesmerizing, not for its content but for the cadences of the talk, the rhythm we fell into when we were alone, now as before. Every conversation between friends or lovers creates its own easy or awkward rhythms, hidden talk that runs like a subterranean river under even the most banal exchange.

Robert Charles Wilson

We men are fascinated by the things we don't really understand. It gives us something to think and talk about: like females, they drive us nuts.

Criss Jami

There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Dorothy Nevill

You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different words. Conversation in a dorm room quoted in Language in Thought and Action,

S. I. Hayakawa

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

Mark Twain

Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.

E. M. Cioran

When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.

Josh Billings

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.

Agnes Repplier

Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.

Peggy Noonan

The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.

Fran Lebowitz, Metropolitan Life

More of your conversation would infect my brain.

William Shakespeare

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

Robert Louis Stevenson

One of the very best rules of conversation is to never, say anything which any of the company wish had been left unsaid.

Jonathan Swift

Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.

Antoine Rivarol

Nothing lowers the level on conversation more than raising the voice.

Stanley Horowitz

Little-minded people's thoughts move in such small circles that five minutes conversation gives you an arc long enough to determine their whole curve.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.

E. M. Cioran

With thee conversing I forget all time.

John Milton