My idea of a good night has always been having a lovely meal and a proper conversation.
One of my favorite things is to have a three-hour conversation over coffee with someone.
My idea of good company, Mr Elliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversations; that is what I call good company.
Let us not look east and west for materials of conversation, but rest in presence and unity. A just feeling will fast enough supply fuel for discourse, if speaking be more grateful than silence. When people come to see us, we foolishly prattle, lest we be inhospitable. But things said for conversation are chalk eggs. Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary. A lady of my acquaintance said, I don't care so much for what they say as I do for what makes them say it.http://www.rwe.org/comm/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=26&Itemid=220
Not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
She has lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
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 to what is said and to answer to the purpose.
True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only.
Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, --for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it -- not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.
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.
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.
I'm liking that I can throw any kind of sentence at her without worrying it's too out there.
There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.
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.
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,
Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.
Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.
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