Conversation Quotes

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

No one will ever shine in conversation, who thinks of saying fine things: to please, one must say many things indifferent, and many very bad.

People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.

The exchange by e-mail is more intimate than conversation - you allow yourself to say things you otherwise wouldn't.

Sometimes I wish that I was the weather, you'd bring me up in conversation forever. And when it rained, I'd be the talk of the day.

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

American scripts are usually non-stop conversation. People talking over each other. I like that.

Eating without conversation is only stoking.

What is reading, but silent conversation.

When I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of commanding attention, and giving the tone to the conversation.

There's no conversation more boring than talking about what it's really like to live in Newport and how the show compares to the real thing. I just don't care.

My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I didn't know.

No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.

I think it's been the topic of conversation for every one... If the U.S. is hit again, how are we going to handle it? Our troops are all over the place.

I'm having this conversation with you now. I'm talking, but I'm thinking, feeling, smelling, and moving. Yet I'm concentrating on what you're saying. So that means there's more things going on in the body than just the present thing that the person's got you doing.

What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.

Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.

People are hurting out there, perhaps they are ready to start a conversation about whether an AR-15 belongs in the hands of a citizen, whether a citizen should be able 6,000 rounds on the internet.

There's something about being rejected - when I go out without my friends, I'm reminded of how I'm actually quite antisocial. I don't look like a guy who feels like that, but it's very hard for me to start up a conversation. At a party, I'm lost.

Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.

Yes, I, well, when I write, as often as I can, I try to write as if I'm talking to people. It doesn't always work, and one shouldn't always try it, but I try and write as if I am talking, and trying to engage the reader in conversation.

I painted one dining room red and I must say, the conversation became very heated in that room.

It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then.

Musicians playing together, it's a conversation, and ideally I want our conversation to be really intriguing and interesting and beautiful.

Polite conversation is rarely either.

Tonight was a great opportunity to take on the political status quo that has given us trillion dollar deficits and put millions out of work. Our objective was to inject some common sense into the conversation among Republicans at a time when business-as-usual simply won't work.

If you're interested in how people behave, if you're interested in the way they talk about themselves, the way the conceive of themselves, it's very hard to ignore drugs nowadays, because that is so much part of the conversation.

I learned firsthand that there would simply be no wars if people engaged in real conversation.

I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.

Faculty met, and after the usual business, some conversation was had about certain students being addicted to drinking, and it was reported that a citizen of the village had informed a member of the Faculty that there was a good deal of drinking this term among the students.