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.
Conversation Quotes
When someone tells you something defies description, you can be pretty sure he’s going to have a go at it anyway.
And took a pocket-book from his coat pocket and a stump of black-lead pencil from his waistcoat pocket. “I made,” he said, turning the leaves; “I made a guiding memorandum or so – as I usually do, for I have no conversational powers whatsoever – to which I will, with your permission, my dear, refer.”
John Wesley’s conversation is good, but he is never at leisure. He is always obliged to go at a certain hour. This is very disagreeable to a man who loves to fold his legs and have out his talk, as I do.
“I should like balls infinitely better,” she said, “if they were carried on in a different manner… It would be surely be more rational if conversation instead of dancing made the order of the day.” To which her brother replied, “Much more rational, I dare say, but it would not be near so much like […]
My idea of an agreeable person, is a person who agrees with me.
Every man has some favorite topic of conversation, on which, by a feigned seriousness of attention, he may be drawn to expatiate without end.
The starting point of conversation is contradiction, and this democratic manners do not tolerate. Contradiction implies that one or another of the conversing group must be wrong, and under modern manners… peculiar feelings cling to error.
The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation.
How many may a man of diffusive conversation count among his acquaintances, whose lives have been signalized by numberless escapes; who never cross the river but in a storm, or take a journey into the country without more adventures than befel the knights-errant of ancient times in pathless forests or enchanted castles! How many must […]
