Conversation Quotes - Page 4

• Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.

  O. Henry

  Communication, Dough, Raisins

  O. Henry (2016). “The Complete Works Of O. Henry”, p.776, ShandonPress

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• Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.

  Kin Hubbard

  Funny, Change, Communication

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• Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

  H. L. Mencken

  Love, Children, Men

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.620, Vintage

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• Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Conceited, Causes, Wit

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• The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Sarcastic, Communication

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• Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.

  Laurence Sterne

  Writing, Thinking, Talking

  'Tristram Shandy' (1759-67) bk. 2, ch. 11

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• Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Marriage, Long, Disputes

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson”, p.78, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.

  Deborah Tannen

  Connections, Way, Language

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• Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, Effort, Special

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• Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.

  Peter Ustinov

  Marriage, Sex, Mean

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• Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.

  Samuel Johnson

  Gentleman, Questioning

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1824). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order: A Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published; the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished”, p.444

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• Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.

  Agnes Repplier

  Adam, Difficult, Has Beens

  "American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier".

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• There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.

  Rebecca West

  Communication, Language, Illusion

  The Harsh Voice "There Is No Conversation" (1935)

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• I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation

  Clifton Fadiman

  Questions And Answers, Sculpture, Use

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• I found it very difficult to explain to someone why you did a film. It's not like having a conversation.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Film, Found, Difficult

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

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• I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians, whom I would gladly name, were I not afraid of exposing them to danger.

  Edmond Francois Valentin About

  Talking, Names, Enlightened

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• The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Thinking, Agreement, Listening To Others

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• Some of us may just, in one-on-one conversations with our family, with our friends, over the back fence with our neighbors, talk about the reality of our lives and realize that we're not alone, that we have a right to be physically safe and emotionally safe in our own homes.

  Patricia Ireland

  Home, Reality, May

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• Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.

  Ernest Dimnet

  America, Twelve, Rooms

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• I've never been to the websites. It's a lot healthier for me to keep out of the conversations about me.

  Fiona Apple

  Website

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• Sometimes interviews are fun and good conversations, but stuff like photo shoots and appearances at places where you have to meet a lot of people - I was never really made for this kind of stuff.

  Fiona Apple

  Fun, People, Stuff

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• I don't think of myself as giving interviews. I just have conversations. That gets me in trouble.

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, Sports, Thinking

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• Most of my relationships were people in the business. Having said that, me and Tim don't really talk that much about work. He comes into my bit of the house every so often to vent but we don't really have very high, cultured conversations.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  People, House, Said

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• I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Forever, Missing, Literature

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1856). “Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.464

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• The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.

  Leonard Cohen

  Depression, Depressing, Psychics

  The International Herald Tribune, November 4, 1988.

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