There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for.
Conversation Quotes
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 is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
Sir, there is nothing by which a man exasperates most people more, than by displaying a superiour ability or brilliancy in conversation. They seem pleased at the time; but their envy makes them curse him in their hearts.
When someone tells you something defies description, you can be pretty sure he’s going to have a go at it anyway.
And took a pocket-book from his coat pocket and a stump of black-lead pencil from his waistcoat pocket. “I made,” he said, turning the leaves; “I made a guiding memorandum or so – as I usually do, for I have no conversational powers whatsoever – to which I will, with your permission, my dear, refer.”
John Wesley’s conversation is good, but he is never at leisure. He is always obliged to go at a certain hour. This is very disagreeable to a man who loves to fold his legs and have out his talk, as I do.
