| |  | | | | | | | | | | | Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius | | Edward Gibbon | | | | | Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live | | Ralph Waldo Emerson | | | Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood | | William Shakespeare | | | Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing. | | Oscar Wilde | | | Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty | | Joseph Addison | | | I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read. | | Samuel Johnson | | | | | It was impossible to get a conversation going; everybody was talking too much. | | Yogi Berra | | | One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid | | Jonathan Swift | | | | | Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen | | Samuel Johnson | | | Tallulah was sitting in a group of people, giving the monologue she always thought was conversation. | | Lillian Hellman | | | 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 Adams | | | The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken | | Benjamin Franklin | | | The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken | | Benjamin Franklin | | | | | Quotes: 1 - 16 of 16 | Pages: 1 | | | |
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