Quotes about Conversation
The best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between sincere people.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I hate dainty minds,' answered Marjorie. 'But a girl has to be dainty in person. If she looks like a million dollars she can talk about Russia, ping-pong, or the League of Nations and get away with it.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
They talked aimlessly back and forth, each speaking for the other.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
I returned rather feebly to the subject of her daughter. 'I suppose she talks, she eats, and everything.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
They were all tall and slender with heads groomed like manikins' heads, and as they talked the heads waved gracefully above their dark tailored suits, rather like long-stemmed flowers and rather like cobras' hoods.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
She could make fascinating and almost brilliant conversation out of the thinnest air that ever floated through a drawing-room.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.
— William Hazlitt
To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context.
— Rowan Williams
Austen knew that our biggest hopes sometimes rest on the smallest events, and that tragedy can be played out not just on a national stage or a foreign battlefield but also in a drawing-room conversation or on a country walk.
— Robert Morris
All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
— Ronald Reagan
Tonight the special was chicken pot pie, but most of the regulars were concentrating on whiskey.
— Alice Hoffman
There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink.
— Anonymous