Two monologues do not make a dialogue.
Conversation Quotes
Two simple words are the key to kicking off conversations: “Tell me.” Most people ask closed questions that already contain the answer. This relegates the other person to confirming or denying what you just said. “Did you have fun at the dance?” “Yeah.” “Did you enjoy the ball game?” – “It was okay.” End of […]
Good conversation, like a defensive driver, yields the right of way.
Nothing lowers the level of conversation more than raising the voice.
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.
“I should like balls infinitely better,” she said, “if they were carried on in a different manner… It would be surely be more rational if conversation instead of dancing made the order of the day.” To which her brother replied, “Much more rational, I dare say, but it would not be near so much like […]
