There is nothing so annoying as to have two people go right on talking when you’re interrupting. (often erroneously attributed to Mark Twain)
Conversation Quotes
For let me tell you, that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.
Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.
Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience. (“Calvin and Hobbes”)
It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.
The faux pas is repartee which has become accidentally entangled with hara – kiri.
If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
Whoever interrupts the conversation of others to make a display of his fund of knowledge, makes notorious his own stock of ignorance.
