His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes of silence that make his conversation perfectly delightful.
CONVERSATION n. A fair to the display of the minor mental commodities each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own wares to observe those of his neighbor.
A gossip is someone who talks to you about others a bore is someone who talks to you about himself an excellent conversationalist is someone who talks to you about you.
One factor that makes it rare for us to find so few people who can carry on an agreeable and rational conversation is that there are practically no people who do not think first of all about what they want to say rather than responding precisely to what others are saying to them. The politest people are content merely to show an attentive mien while all the time we see that their eyes and their minds are wandering and that they are in a rush to return to what they want to say. They should consider that this insistent search for self-satisfaction is a poor way of giving pleasure and that it is a greater accomplishment to listen well and reply justly than to speak well and often without responding to what others are saying to us.
I praise God for you sir: your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without scurrility witty without affectation audacious without impudency learned without opinion and strange with-out heresy.
While we look not at the things which are seen but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another mans observation not overturning it.
Conversation enriches the understanding but solitude is the school of genius.
Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness.
His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes of silence that make his conversation perfectly delightful.
Its all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then.
A repartee is what a person thinks of after he becomes a departee.
CONVERSATION n. A fair to the display of the minor mental commodities each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own wares to observe those of his neighbor.
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
Good conversation like a defensive driver yields the right of way.
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.
Be able to disagree without being disagreeable. We must not let the things we can?t do keep us from doing the things we can do.
Monkeys who very sensibly refrain from speech lest they should be set to earn their livings.
And when you stick on conversations burrs Dont strew your pathway with those dreadful urs.
Dont knock the weather nine-tenths of the people couldnt start a conversation if it didnt change once in a while.
Dont knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldnt start a conversation if it didnt change once in a while.
When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.
A gossip is someone who talks to you about others a bore is someone who talks to you about himself an excellent conversationalist is someone who talks to you about you.
Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other so we can have some conversation.
The value of the average conversation could be enormously improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
It gets you nowhere if the other persons tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conversation.
No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
One factor that makes it rare for us to find so few people who can carry on an agreeable and rational conversation is that there are practically no people who do not think first of all about what they want to say rather than responding precisely to what others are saying to them. The politest people are content merely to show an attentive mien while all the time we see that their eyes and their minds are wandering and that they are in a rush to return to what they want to say. They should consider that this insistent search for self-satisfaction is a poor way of giving pleasure and that it is a greater accomplishment to listen well and reply justly than to speak well and often without responding to what others are saying to us.
Conversation has a kind of charm about it an insinuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
I praise God for you sir: your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without scurrility witty without affectation audacious without impudency learned without opinion and strange with-out heresy.
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when youre busy interrupting.
Conversation is the slowest form of human communication.
Lettuce is like conversation: it must be fresh and crisp and so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.
Calvin: Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out-of-body experience.
While we look not at the things which are seen but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.