Conversation Quotes

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.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

Silence is one great art of conversation.

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

Oh, I could spend my life having this conversation – look – please try to understand before one of us dies.

And when you stick on conversation’s burrs, don’t strew your pathway with those dreadful urs.