Conversation Quotes
These are some of the best 'Conversation' quotations and sayings.
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A ceremony of self-wastage - good talkers are miserable, they know that they have betrayed themselves, that they have taken material which should have a life of its own, to disperse it in noises upon the air.
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A long walk and calm conversation are an incredible combination if you want to build a bridge.
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A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas.
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.
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Among well-bred people a mutual deference is affected, contempt of others is disguised; authority concealed; attention given to each in his turn; and an easy stream of conversation maintained without vehemence, without interruption, without eagerness for victory, and without any airs of superiority.
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As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so it is of small wits to talk much and say nothing.
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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.
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Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live.
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Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.
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Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
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Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.
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Conversation warms the mind, enlivens the imagination, and is continually starting fresh game that is immediately pursued and taken, which would never have occurred in the driller intercourse of epistolary correspondence.
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For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind. Do they see it well clothed, neat, businesslike?
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Great talkers are trying to fill the gap between themselves and others, but only widen it.
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Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
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He (Macaulay) has occasional flashes of silence that make his conversation perfectly delightful.
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He kept up with the current literature, and distilled from it a polite essence, with which he knew how to perfume his conversation.
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He who sedulously attends, pointedly asks, calmly speaks, coolly answers, and ceases when he has no more to say, is in possession of some of the best requisites of conversation.
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I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.
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