Conversation Sayings & Quotes
These conversation sayings, quotes and quotations are from our famous and inspiring Just-Quotes collection.Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain. - Nicholson Baker
Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative. - Oscar Wilde
The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilised being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company. - Oscar Wilde
The reason that there are so few good conversationalists is that most people are thinking about what they are going to say and not about what the others are saying. [Fr., Ce qui fait que si peu de personnes sont agréables dans la conversation, c'est que chacun songe plus à ce qu'il veut dire qu'à ce que les autres disent.] - Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
No animal should ever jump on the dining room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation. - Fran Lebowitz
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food. - William Hazlitt
People learn more from observation that they do from conversation. - Will Rogers
There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation! A human being, Hastings, cannot resist the opportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away. - Dame Agatha Christie
Good conversation is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. - Margaret Lee Runbeck
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
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
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