870 Quotes About Conversation

No civil conversation can occur while you are holding an ax.

If you want me to do something you must be literal, or your request is only a suggestion that is open to my personal interpretation of what exactly you might mean.

Some people are not really good listeners. They are merely good at keeping quiet for a long time, while someone is talking to them.

Finishing off someone’s sentence is annoying, even if you have guessed correctly. Add to that rude, if they stutter.

Too many people to talk to. Nobody to have a conversation with.

They do not practise the art of conversation in quite the way the English do, but are straightforward to the point of bluntness.

That their shooting of messages will stop, that they will give their thoughts more thought, that they will start engaging in reflection, develop a true conversation,and in that meaning-negotiation,create some new understanding. The real thing.

Listening to you talk about your day is the best part of mine.

I'm usually grateful for how good conversation stirs up my head, in ways that solitary thinking or reading alone cannot.