quotations about conversation
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.
TRUMAN CAPOTE
Portraits and Observations
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"
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
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
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
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