Not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
Conversation Quotes
There are men with whom an hour’s talk would weaken one more than a week’s fasting.
There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for.
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insinuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
He that converses not, knows nothing.
Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses.
Your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious, pleasant without scurrility, witty without affection, audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, and strange without heresy. (Love’s Labour’s Lost)
It gets you nowhere if the other person’s tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conversation.
He (Macaulay) has occasional flashes of silence that make his conversation perfectly delightful.
I like talking to Rabbit. He talks about sensible things. He doesn’t use long, difficult words, like Owl. He uses short, easy words, like ‘What about lunch’ and ‘Help yourself, Pooh’. I suppose I really ought to go and see Rabbit.
