Quotes about Conversation
What greater dignity can be put upon a mortal man, than to converse with his Maker, and to walk with God every day?
— Thomas Watson
In a group when the conversation takes a trend that is upsetting, try injecting peaceful ideas into the talk.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Negative conversation adversely affects circumstances. Certainly talk of a tense and nervous nature enhances inner agitation.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.
— Oscar Wilde
When bankers get together for dinner, they discuss Art. When artists get together for dinner, they discuss Money
— Oscar Wilde
Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous.
— Oscar Wilde
I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.
— Oscar Wilde
Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.
— Oscar Wilde
MRS ALLONBY I adore them. The clever people never listen, and the stupid people never talk. HESTER I think the stupid people talk a great deal. MRS ALLONBY Ah, I never listen!
— Oscar Wilde
Not to talk with people although they can be talked with is to waste people. To talk with people although they can't be talked with is to waste words. A man of understanding does not waste people, but he also does not waste words.
— Confucius
If I'm not here you can still talk to me. You can talk to me and I'll talk to you. You'll see.
— Cormac McCarthy
We none of us knew him to speak [Dutch]. Asked him where he'd learned it you know what he said? What did he say. Said off a Dutchman.
— Cormac McCarthy