CONVERSATION QUOTES III

quotations about conversation

But conversation, choose what theme we may,
And chiefly when religion leads the way,
Should flow, like waters after summer show'rs,
Not as if raised by mere mechanic powers.

WILLIAM COWPER

Conversation


Their conversation was brief, and their desire was to be silent.

JUVENAL

Satires


It's too hot for words
Why bother with conversation
Don't let's talk or even walk
If you want to make love, okay

BILLIE HOLIDAY

"It's Too Hot for Words"


In the best conversations, you don't even remember what you talked about, only how it felt. It felt like we were in some place your body can't visit, some place with no ceiling and no walls and no floor and no instruments.

JOHN GREEN

Turtle All the Way Down


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.

AMBROSE BIERCE

The Devil's Dictionary


British conversation is like a game of cricket or a boxing match; personal allusions are forbidden like hitting below the belt, and anyone who loses his temper is disqualified.

ANDRÉ MAUROIS

The Art of Living


Talk to me
You never
Talk to me
Do we suffer
From
Social atrophy
And when the conversation's over
When the conversation's over
We've taken what's been given
And we throw it all away

STAIND

"Nothing Left to Say"


How do we define this lively darting about with words, of hitting them back and forth, this sort of brief smile of ideas which should be conversation?

GUY DE MAUPASSANT

The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 10


Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure.

W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

The Trembling of a Leaf


Each word is a singularity, or is connected with a singularity, in our way of understanding existence.

LEON ROSENFELD

attributed, A Question of Physics: Conversations in Physics and Biology


Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.

ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH

Gift from the Sea


What I need from you babe
Is good conversation
To put my mind at ease

BOYZONE

"Good Conversation"


There is something hugely civilised about allowing long pauses in a conversation. Very few people can stand that kind of silence.

JAMES ROBERTSON

And the Land Lay Still


The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.

WILLIAM HAZLITT

Selected Essays