Conversation Quotes

A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.

Mark Twain

They say women talk too much. If you ever worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented yb men.

Clare Boothe Luce

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

Thomas Carlyle

I don't know what he means by that, but I nod and smile at him. You'd be surprised at how far that response can get you in a conversation where you are completely confused.

Jodi Picoult

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.

George Herbert

At some glad moment was it nature's choice to dower a scrap of sunset with a voice?

Edgar Fawcett

Listening to someone talk isn't at all like listening to their words played over on a machine. What you hear when you have a face before you is never what you hear when you have before you a winding tape.

Oriana Fallaci

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.

Joseph Roux

Then read from the treasured volume the poem of thy choice, and lend to the rhyme of the poet the beauty of thy voice.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly --because if they don't speak fast nobody will listen to them.

Michael Caine

He disliked contradiction, and still more, arguments that were continually skipping from one thing to another, introducing new and disconnected points, so that there was no knowing to which to reply.

Leo Tolstoy

Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.

Cato The Elder

Talk is over-rated as a means of settling disputes.

Tom Cruise

Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.

Hannah Arendt

I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.

Oscar Wilde

Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies.

Marshall McLuhan

For mankind, speech with a capital S is especially meaningful and committing, more than the content communicated. The outcry of the newborn and the sound of the bells are fraught with mystery more than the baby's woeful face or the venerable tower.

Paul Goodman

And when you stick on conversation's burrs, don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

Oliver Wendell Holmes