(1522 quotes found)
“It was impossible to get a conversation going; everybody was talking too much.”
Yogi Berra
“Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.”
François de la Rochefoucauld
“If one hears bad music it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation”
Oscar Wilde
“Years ago, I tried to top everybody, but I don't anymore, I realized it was killing conversation. When you're always trying for a topper you aren't really listening. It ruins communication.”
Groucho Marx
“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.”
Rene Descartes
“A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
“Your ignorance cramps my conversation”
Bob Hope
“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.”
Dorothy Nevill
“Conversation is food for the soul”
Mexican Proverb
“The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company”
