I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.
Conversation Quotes
Conversation, n. A fair to the display of the minor mental commodities, each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own wares to observe those of his neighbor.
Nature has given men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as we speak.
If you can’t say something good about someone, sit right here by me.
When I complained of having dined at a splendid table without hearing one sentence of conversation worthy of being remembered, he said, “Sir, there seldom is any such conversation.” Boswell: “Why then meet at table?” Johnson: “Why, to eat and drink together, and to promote kindness; and, Sir, this is better done when there is […]
There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person. They are you, your private joys and sorrows, and you can never tell them. You cheapen them, the inside of yourself when you tell them.
The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man’s observation, not overturning it.
Repartee is what you wish you’d said.
Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.
How have we managed to sustain dinner-party conversation since we stopped comparing our cholesterol levels?
