He that converses not, knows nothing.
Conversation Quotes
Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses.
Your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious, pleasant without scurrility, witty without affection, audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, and strange without heresy. (Love’s Labour’s Lost)
It gets you nowhere if the other person’s tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conversation.
He (Macaulay) has occasional flashes of silence that make his conversation perfectly delightful.
I like talking to Rabbit. He talks about sensible things. He doesn’t use long, difficult words, like Owl. He uses short, easy words, like ‘What about lunch’ and ‘Help yourself, Pooh’. I suppose I really ought to go and see Rabbit.
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you’re in.
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
There is no conversation more boring than one where everybody agrees.
