| "The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts." »Rene Descartes |
| "Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, 'there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.' A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence." »Tom Blair |
| "It's all right to hold a conversation, but you should let go of it now and then." »Richard Willard Armour |
| "Conceit causes more conversation than wit." »La Rochefoucauld |
| "Your ignorance, cramps my conversation." »Sir Anthony Hawkins |
| "There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees." »Michel de Montaigne |
| "I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation." »George Bernard Shaw |
| "Argument is the worst sort of conversation." »Jonathan Swift |
| "Silence is one great art of conversation." »Anonymous |
| "Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him." »Thomas Fuller |
| "To harken to evil conversation is the road to wickedness.." »Anonymous |
| "Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation." »Elizabeth Drew |
| "Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation." »Judith Martin |
| "You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation." »Plato |
| "One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid." »Jonathan Swift |
| "Don't knock the weather nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while." »Kim Hubbard |
| "If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating." »Leigh Hunt |
| "He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful." »Sydney Smith |
| "A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study." »Chinese Proverb |
| "Few are agreeable in conversation, because each thinks of what he intends to say than of what others are saying, and listens no more when he himself has a chance to speak." »Francois de La Rochefoucauld |
| "Silence makes the real conversation between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say is what counts." »Margaret Lee Runbeck |
| "No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation." »Fran Lebowitz |
| "To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation." »Francois de La Rochefoucauld |
| "conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
| "Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation." »Johann von Goethe |
| "conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood." »William Shakespeare |
| "People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices." »Adam Smith |
| "True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions." »Joseph Addison |
| "The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment." »Dorothy Nevill |
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