870 Quotes About Conversation

Most people he knew, his wife included, wouldn't make it through an hour on the promise of four sentences. But Frankie Bard was like a camel. She could hold her words for days--as long as she could watch the goings-on.

Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth getting into or at least eavesdropping.

So you have something important to say, so you interrupt an exciting conversation already in progress just to let us know you have nothing to contribute to the discussion. Umm....

one wonders how much real conversation there is when one party does not, in many districts, have to contend for the votes of minorities, and the other can only elevate minorities into positions of power when the political wind is blowing in its direction.

The topics which language limits us to aren’t much worth discussing in the first place.(attrib: F.L. Vanderson)

That which is worth telling is not worth having.

Surely only boring people went in for conversations consisting of questions and answers. The art of true conversation consisted in the play of minds.

We don't talk, we hold forth. We don't converse, we expound.

Weird people don't care if they're weird. They are the most entertaining to converse with because nothing is off-limits.