conversation - quotes
Tag category: conversation(Frank McKinney) "Kin" Hubbard, 1868-1930
Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.
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Anatole France (François-Anatole Thibault), 1844-1924
. . . everyone took an interest in the conversation, for each one was interested in what he or she said.
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George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
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Ambrose (Gwinnett) Bierce, 1842-1914
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.
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He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
( referring to Macaulay )
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