The difficulty with this conversation is that it`s very different from most of the ones I`ve had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.
- Douglas AdamsIt was impossible to get a conversation going; everybody was talking too much.
- Yogi BerraConversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
- Oscar WildeConversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.
- Oscar WildeConversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood
- William ShakespeareA conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That`s why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
- Truman CapoteA single conversation across the table with a wise person is worth a month`s study of books
- Chinese ProverbsThe real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
- Dorothy NevillThere is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.
- James Nathan Miller