Conversation Quotes

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes. (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food. View quote
William Hazlitt
A happy marriage is a long conversation that always seems too short. View quote
André Maurois
Silence is the one great art of conversation. View quote
William Hazlitt
There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all. View quote
Rebecca West
No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does. View quote
Christopher Morley
When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation. View quote
Samuel Johnson
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet. View quote
Truman Capote
Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius. View quote
Edward Gibbon
I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat. (Antonin Artaud)
Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation. View quote
Laurence Sterne
You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact. View quote
Harry Dean Stanton
No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation. View quote
Fran Lebowitz
One of the very best rules of conversation is to never, say anything which any of the company wish had been left unsaid. View quote
Jonathan Swift
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
Silence and modesty are very valuable qualities in conversation. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming. View quote
Edgar Degas
In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation. View quote
Anthony Sampson
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. View quote
René Descartes
Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it. (Charles Dudley Warner)
Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well. View quote
Mark Haddon
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. View quote
Groucho Marx
Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet. View quote
Ernest Bramah
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence. View quote
O. Henry