Art Of Conversation Quotes

• To say the right thing at the right time, keep still most of the time.

  John W. Roper

  Real Conversation, Right Time, Stills

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• The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.

  William Hazlitt

  Art, Attention, Hearing

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.2779, Delphi Classics

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• To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Inspirational, Art, Educational

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• Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Positive, Art, Silence

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• I happen to disagree with the well-entrenched theory that the art of conversation is merely the art of being a good listener. Such advice invites people to be cynical with one another and full of fake; when a conversation becomes a monologue, poked along with tiny cattle-prod questions, it isn't a conversation any more.

  Barbara Walters

  Art, Women, People

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• Silence is one great art of conversation. He is not a fool who knows when to hold his tongue; and a person may gain credit for sense, eloquence, wit, who merely says nothing to lessen the opinion which others have of these qualities in themselves.

  William Hazlitt

  Art, Silence, Quality

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1472, Delphi Classics

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• The art of conversation lies in listening.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Inspirational, Art, Lying

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• The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a motley garb.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Art, Stubborn, Matter

  Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The works of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield: embracing novels, romances, plays, poems, biography, short stories and great speeches”

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• The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably.

  Hayley Atwell

  Art, Communication, Talking

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• Hosting is an art form. Like acting, singing, or comedy hosting is a craft. It's a delicate dance of timing, the ability to read the room, and the art of conversation.

  Todd Newton

  Art, Singing, Acting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The art of conversation, or the qualification for a good companion, is a certain self-control, which now holds the subject, now lets it go, with a respect for the emergencies of the moment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Self, Let It Go

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1912). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

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• Among the arts of conversation no one pleases more than mutual deference or civility, which leads us to resign our own inclinations to those of our companions, and to curb and conceal that presumption and arrogance so natural to the human mind.

  David Hume

  Art, Arrogance, Mind

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.651, Delphi Classics

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• One often reads about the art of conversation-how it's dying or what's needed to make it flourish, or how rare good ones are. But wouldn't you agree that the infinitely more valuable rara avis [rare bird] is a good listener.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Art, Agreement, Bird

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• Real-life discussions involve a great many bores and boors who have never learned that the art of conversation demands listening as well as talking.

  Susan Jacoby

  Art, Real, Women

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• Silence is one great art of conversation.

  William Hazlitt

  Art, Communication, Silence

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1472, Delphi Classics

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• Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.

  Chinua Achebe

  Art, Oil, Conversation

  FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Sep 05, 2014

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• The real amateur of wine can only enjoy it along with friends, sharing with them the art of conversation and the art of drinking. Wine is indeed essentially a sign of civilization, a factor of sociability, friendship.

  Jean Drapeau

  Art, Real, Drinking

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• When you're at dinner with somebody and they are on their phone. I think there's that lost art of conversation and so I just always try to keep my phone far away from me when I'm with people.

  Austin Butler

  Art, Thinking, Phones

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• The Art of Conversation could not die in Australia; it never lived. Television did not kill it; there was nothing there to kill.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Art, Humor

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• All who say the same things do not possess them in the same manner; and hence the incomparable author of the Art of Conversation pauses with so much care to make it understood that we must not judge of the capacity of a man by the excellence of a happy remark that we heard him make. Let us penetrate, says he, the mind from which it proceeds. It will oftenest be seen that he will be made to disavow it on the spot, and will be drawn very far from this better thought in which he does not believe, to plunge himself into another, quite base and ridiculous.

  Blaise Pascal

  Art, Believe, Men

  "The Art of Persuasion". Book by Blaise Pascal, translated by O. W. Wright, www.bartleby.com. 2001.

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• That silence is one of the great arts of conversation is allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an art, but even an eloquence in it

  Hannah More

  Art, Women, Silence

  Hannah More (1835). “The Works of Hannah More”, p.345

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