How many may a man of diffusive conversation count among his acquaintances, whose lives have been signalized by numberless escapes; who never cross the river but in a storm, or take a journey into the country without more adventures than befel the knights-errant of ancient times in pathless forests or enchanted castles! How many must […]
Conversation Quotes
The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live.
A gossip is one who talks to you about others; a bore is one who talks to you about himself; and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself.
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.
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.
