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“Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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“Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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“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 Quotes |
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“A single conversation across the table with a wise person is worth a month's study of books”
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“It was impossible to get a conversation going; everybody was talking too much.”
Yogi Berra Quotes |
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“There 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.”
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“Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.”
Dorothy Nevill Quotes |
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“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 Quotes |
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“Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood”
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“Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in
writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood.”
Joseph Addison Quotes Source: in the "Spectator", no. 476
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“We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God
in company.”
Bible Quotes Source: Psalms (ch. LV, v. 14)
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“With good and gentle-humored hearts
I choose to chat where'er I come
Whate'er the subject be that starts.
But if I get among the glum
I hold my tongue to tell the truth
And keep my breath to cool my broth.”
John Byrom Quotes Source: Careless Content
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“In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.”
John Byrom Quotes Source: Careless Content
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“But conversation, choose what theme we may,
And chiefly when religion leads the way,
Should flow, like waters after summer show'rs,
Not as if raised by mere mechanic powers.”
William Cowper Quotes Source: Conversation (l. 703)
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“Conversation is a game of circles.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes Source: Essays--Circles
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“Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes Source: Society and Solitude--Clubs
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“I never, with important air,
In conversation overbear.
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My tongue within my lips I rein;
For who talks much must talk in vain.”
John Gay Quotes Source: Fables (pt. I, introduction, l. 53)
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“With thee conversing I forget the way.”
John Gay Quotes Source: Trivia (bk. II, l. 480)
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“They would talk of nothing but high life and high-lived company,
with other fashionable topics, such as pictures, taste,
Shakespeare, and the musical glasses.”
Oliver Goldsmith Quotes Source: Vicar of Wakefield (ch. IX)
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“Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of
existence.”
O. Henry (pseudonym of William Sydney Porter) Quotes Source: The Complete Like of John Hopkins
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“And when you stick on conversation's burs,
Don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes Source: A Rhymed Lesson--Urania
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“Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind.”
Homer ("Smyrns of Chios") Quotes Source: The Odyssey (bk. 15, l. 433), (Pope's translation)
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“Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.”
Samuel Johnson Quotes Source: Boswell's Life of Johnson
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“Tom Birch is as brisk as a bee in conversation; but no sooner
does he take a pen in his hand, than it becomes a torpedo to him,
and benumbs all his faculties.”
Samuel Johnson Quotes Source: Boswell's Life of Johnson
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“His conversation does not show the minute hand; but he strikes
the hour very correctly.”
Samuel Johnson Quotes Source: Johnsoniana--Kearsley (l. 604)
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