How have we managed to sustain dinner-party conversation since we stopped comparing our cholesterol levels?
Conversation Quotes
You invite Shaw (George Bernard) down to your place because you think he will entertain your friends with brilliant conversation. But before you know where you are he has chosen a school for your son, made your will for you, regulated your diet and assumed all the privileges of your family solicitor, your housekeeper, your […]
The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say – because they were too obvious.
Let us make a special effort to learn to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.
Never hold anyone by the button, or the hand, in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them.
Monkeys who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to earn their livings.
Years ago, I tried to top everybody, but I don’t anymore. I realized it was killing conversation. When you’re always trying for a topper you aren’t really listening. It ruins communication.
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.
