Conversation Quotes

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.

There is no conversation more boring than one where everybody agrees.

No syren did ever so charm the ear of the listener, as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the syren.

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.

A man of no conversation should smoke.

Good conversation is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.

Repartee: What a person thinks of after he becomes a departee.

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.