Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insinuating and insidious something that elicits secrets just like love or liquor.
Seneca – Conversation
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
Michel de Montaigne – Conversation
A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That’s why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
Truman Capote – Conversation
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
Samuel Johnson – Conversation
Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Oscar Wilde – Conversation
The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.
William Hazlitt – Conversation
The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
La Rochefoucauld – Conversation
A collections of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions.
Goethe – Anecdote, Maxim, Conversation
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
George Bernard Shaw – Conversation
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
Cicero – Silence, conversation
Conversation enriches the understanding; but solitude is the school of genius.
Ralph Waldo Emerson – Conversation & Solitude
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors.
Ralph Waldo Emerson – Conversation
We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
