as a series of conversations.
-Deborah Tannen
We converse as we live
by repeating, by combining and recombining
a few elements over and over again
just as nature does when of elementary particles it builds a world.
-William Gass
Human understanding is marvellously enlightened
by daily conversation with men,
for we are, otherwise,
compressed and heaped up in ourselves,
and have our sight limited to our own noses.
-Michel de Montaigne
Not just any talk is conversation;
not just any talk raises your consciousness.
Good conversation has an edge:
it opens your eyes to something, quickens your ears.
-James Hillman
Conversation is the food of the ears.
-Trinidadian Proverb
It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us.
It is the elation that comes of swift contact
with tingling currents of thought.
Conversation is the food of the ears.
-Trinidadian Proverb
It is the elation that comes of swift contact
with tingling currents of thought.
-Agnes Repplier
Good communication is just as stimulating as back coffee,
and just as hard to sleep after.
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Conversation. What is it? A Mystery!
It's the art of never seeming bored,
of touching everything with interest.
of pleasing with trifles,
of being fascinating with nothing at all.
-Guy de Maupassant
Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords -
philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal and the weather.
-Anna Jameson
Conversation is an abandonment to ideas,
a surrender to persons.
-Amos Bronson Alcott
The soul of conversation is sympathy.
-William Hazlitt
I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature
on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation.
-Clifton Fadiman
All serious conversations
gravitate toward philosophy.
-Ernest Dimnet
What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists!
One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
-Edgar Degas
The true spirit of conversation
consists on building on another man's observation,
not overturning it.
-Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The royal road to a man's heart
is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
-Dale Carnegie
And surely one of the best rules of conversation is,
never say a thing which any of the company
can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
-Jonathan Swift
Good manners is the art of making those people easy
with whom we converse.
Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy
is the best bred in the company.
-Jonathan Swift
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
His occasional flashes of silence
made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-Sydney Smith
Two may talk and one may hear,
but three may not take part in a conversation
of a most sincere and searching sort.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no true conversation
no matter how many words are spoken,
unless the eye, unveiled and listening,
opens itself to the other.
-Jessamyn West
You want people to walk away
from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom
or some kind of impact.
-Harry Dean Stanton
The first ingredient in conversation is truth;
the next good sense;
the third good humor;
and the fourth wit.
-William Temple
A good conversationalist
is not one who remembers what was said,
but says what someone wants to remember.
-John Mason Brown
Conversation is but carving!
Give no more to every guest
Than he's able to digest.
Give him always of the prime,
And but little at a time.
Carve to all but just enough,
Let them neither starve nor stuff,
And that you may have your due,
Let your neighbor carve for you.
-Jonathan Swift
Good communication is just as stimulating as back coffee,
and just as hard to sleep after.
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Conversation. What is it? A Mystery!
It's the art of never seeming bored,
of touching everything with interest.
of pleasing with trifles,
of being fascinating with nothing at all.
-Guy de Maupassant
Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords -
philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal and the weather.
-Anna Jameson
Conversation is an abandonment to ideas,
a surrender to persons.
-Amos Bronson Alcott
The soul of conversation is sympathy.
-William Hazlitt
I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature
on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation.
-Clifton Fadiman
All serious conversations
gravitate toward philosophy.
-Ernest Dimnet
What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists!
One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
-Edgar Degas
The true spirit of conversation
consists on building on another man's observation,
not overturning it.
-Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The royal road to a man's heart
is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
-Dale Carnegie
And surely one of the best rules of conversation is,
never say a thing which any of the company
can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
-Jonathan Swift
Good manners is the art of making those people easy
with whom we converse.
Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy
is the best bred in the company.
-Jonathan Swift
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
His occasional flashes of silence
made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-Sydney Smith
Two may talk and one may hear,
but three may not take part in a conversation
of a most sincere and searching sort.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no true conversation
no matter how many words are spoken,
unless the eye, unveiled and listening,
opens itself to the other.
-Jessamyn West
You want people to walk away
from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom
or some kind of impact.
-Harry Dean Stanton
The first ingredient in conversation is truth;
the next good sense;
the third good humor;
and the fourth wit.
-William Temple
A good conversationalist
is not one who remembers what was said,
but says what someone wants to remember.
-John Mason Brown
Conversation is but carving!
Give no more to every guest
Than he's able to digest.
Give him always of the prime,
And but little at a time.
Carve to all but just enough,
Let them neither starve nor stuff,
And that you may have your due,
Let your neighbor carve for you.
-Jonathan Swift
