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.
Conversation Quotes
There are men with whom an hour’s talk would weaken one more than a week’s fasting.
There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for.
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insinuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
He that converses not, knows nothing.
Good conversation, like a defensive driver, yields the right of way.
Nothing lowers the level of conversation more than raising the voice.
It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
Sir, there is nothing by which a man exasperates most people more, than by displaying a superiour ability or brilliancy in conversation. They seem pleased at the time; but their envy makes them curse him in their hearts.
When someone tells you something defies description, you can be pretty sure he’s going to have a go at it anyway.
