870 Quotes About Conversation

But nothing delights the mind so much as fond and loyal friendship. What a blessing it is to have hearts that are ready and willing to receive all your secretes in safety, with whom you are less afraid to share knowledge of something than keep it to yourself, whose conversation soothes your distress, whose advice helps you make up your mind, whose cheerfulness dissolves your sorrow, whose very appearance cheers you up!

One of the problems of social life is to know what to say to one another when we meet; every man and woman's desire is to appear sympathetic and clever, and this makes conversation difficult, because, taking us all round, we are neither sympathetic nor clever.

I may just be on the outskirts of being OK.

What happiness to sit in intimate conversation with someone of like mind, warmed by candid discussion of the amusing and fleeting ways of this world ... but such a friend is hard to find, and instead you sit there doing your best to fit in with whatever the other is saying, feeling deeply alone.

Is that the biggest favor your vocal cords have done to anyone this week?

They were opposites in one wayThey were similar in anotherBut they felt real with each otherThey felt alive with each otherThey understood their silences even when one would forget the other and be busy with work and struggles of lifeAnd when they finally spoke toeach other, their conversation sparked afire in the atmosphere!

As an introvert, you crave intimate moments and deep connections--and those usually aren't found in a crowd.

Funny how nobody talks on the tubes, isn't it? I rarely catch the tube myself, or lifts. Confined spaces, everybody shuts down. Why is that? Perhaps we think everybody on the tube is a potential psychopath or a drunk,so we close down and pretend to read a book or something.

La véracité transsudait de ma vision : elle avait le ton et la force de sa réalité. J’ai fermé à demi les yeux, comme pour arranger des plis d’un rideau de théâtre et intensifier la mise en scène, mais sa voix approchait toujours, me brûlant les paupières.