Conversation Quotes

Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Causes, Wit, Conceit

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
William Butler Yeats

Wisdom, Design, Nothing

If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
James Whistler

Impossible, Talk, Becomes

Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Confidence, Wit

Courage and willingness to just go for it, whether it is a conversation or a spontaneous trip or trying new things that are scary - it is a really attractive quality.
Alanis Morissette

Courage, Trying, Whether

Polite conversation is rarely either.
Fran Lebowitz

Either, Rarely, Polite

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.
Samuel Johnson

Nothing, General, Impression

I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.
Antonin Artaud

Time, Morning, Made

I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Someone, Down, Street

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.
Samuel Johnson

Woman, Mean, Pleasure

To have God speak to the heart is a majestic experience, an experience that people may miss if they monopolize the conversation and never pause to hear God's responses.
Charles Stanley

God, Experience, Heart

What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.
Anatole France

Madman, Sane, Frightens

A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb?
Rudolf Nureyev

Love, Dumb, Partner

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
Andre Maurois

Simple, Words, Four

What is reading, but silent conversation.
Charles Lamb

Silent, Reading

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.
Christopher Morley

Special, Genius, Dog

Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.
Madeleine Albright

Change, Women, School

The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.
George Santayana

Talk, Impulse, Satisfy

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.
Emile M. Cioran

Silence, Speech, Pay

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt

Food, Wit, Salt

Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation.
Mason Cooley

Keep, Easy, Fact

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.
Edward Gibbon

School, Solitude, Genius

I'm smart and I can be really funny and interesting and I can go toe-to-toe with anybody in a conversation.
Megan Fox

Funny, Smart, Anybody

I still have a spiritual base and a spiritual foundation. And my conversation with God is very open-ended. I pray for humility, honestly, because it's very easy to be caught up in this world.
Katy Perry

God, Spiritual, Humility

The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.
William Temple

Home, Child, Factors

Well, my closest friends are still the ones that I went to school with, but it's nice to go to work, at the studios, and have people there that you're willing to talk to and have a good conversation with.
Tom Felton

Work, Good, Nice

Yes, I, well, when I write, as often as I can, I try to write as if I'm talking to people. It doesn't always work, and one shouldn't always try it, but I try and write as if I am talking, and trying to engage the reader in conversation.
Christopher Hitchens

Work, Trying, Try

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
George Herbert

Humor, Knowledge, Worth

My idea of a good night has always been having a lovely meal and a proper conversation.
Kirsty Gallacher

Good, Night, Lovely

I don't like when there's too much conversation because I'm shy and it makes me uncomfortable.
Rita Rudner

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