He (Macaulay) has occasional flashes of silence that make his conversation perfectly delightful.
Conversation Quotes
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.
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you’re in.
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.
The starting point of conversation is contradiction, and this democratic manners do not tolerate. Contradiction implies that one or another of the conversing group must be wrong, and under modern manners… peculiar feelings cling to error.
The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation.
How many may a man of diffusive conversation count among his acquaintances, whose lives have been signalized by numberless escapes; who never cross the river but in a storm, or take a journey into the country without more adventures than befel the knights-errant of ancient times in pathless forests or enchanted castles! How many must […]
The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.
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.
