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Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.
Amos Bronson Alcott
I don't want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.
George Bernard Shaw
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
Stephen Covey
When you have spoken the word, it reigns over you. When it is unspoken you reign over it.
Arabic Proverb
You can design a conversation intentionally, although most people donÂ’t. Most conversations have a design that is invisible and unconscious.
Dwight Frindt
Courage: To step into a conversation with intention and without knowing how to get back out of it.
Daily conversations that stretch your previous capacities help build your conversational muscle.
Speech is always bolder than action.
Friedrich von Schiller
The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken
Benjamin Franklin
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step, using every time an old boulder, yet never setting his foot on an old place.
Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.
Francis Bacon
No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.
Ben Elton
Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them.
Lord Chesterfield
The fun of talk is to explore, but much of it and all that is irresponsible should not be written. Once written you have to stand by it. You may have said it to see whether you believed it or not.
Ernest Hemingway
The eloquent man is he who is no eloquent speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief.
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
Samuel Johnson
The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered but a general effect of pleasing impression.
