(1524 quotes found)
“No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does”
Christopher Morley
“There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.”
Rebecca West
“The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.”
George Bernard Shaw
“A single conversation across the table with a wise person is worth a month's study of books”
Chinese Proverbs
“Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood”
William Shakespeare
“A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.”
Andre Maurois
“If one hears bad music it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation”
Oscar Wilde
“Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius”
Edward Gibbon
“I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.”
“Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.”
François de la Rochefoucauld