Conversation Quotes

The only happy talkers are dandies who extract pleasure from the very perishability of their material and who would not be able to tolerate the isolation of all other forms of composition; for most good talkers, when they have run down, are miserable; they know that they have betrayed themselves, that they have taken material which should have a life of its own, to dispense it in noises upon the air.

Cyril Connolly

If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating.

Leigh Hunt

In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.

Ovid

The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.

Hilaire Belloc, The Silence of t

What great delight it is to see the ones we love and then to have speech with them.

Vincent McNabb, God's Way of Mer

The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say -- because they were too obvious.

Andre Gide, The Journals of Andr

Speech is the mirror of action.

Solon

I have never fallen in love with my own voice, but I've always had an attraction for it.

Tom Snyder

Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in.

Sydney Smith

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.

Walter Bagehot

Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

Otto von Bismarck

If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.

James Mcneill Whistler

Mediocre people have an answer for everything and are astonished at nothing. They always want to have the air of knowing better than you what you are going to tell them; when, in their turn, they begin to speak, they repeat to you with the greatest confidence, as if dealing with their own property, the things that they have heard you say yourself at some other place. A capable and superior look is the natural accompaniment of this type of character.

Eugene Delacroix

Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.

Kin Hubbard

There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation.

Victor Hugo

Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?

Walt Whitman

Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech.

Thornton Wilder

Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.

Oscar Wilde

Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.

Oscar Wilde

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence