Converses Quotes

• It is impossible for a man to love his wife whole heartedly without loving all women somewhat. I suppose that the converse must be true of women.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Wife, Impossible

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.330, Penguin

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• Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas.

  Henry Thomas Buckle

  Men, Average, Order

  "Haud Immemor: Reminiscences of Legal and Social Life in Edinburgh and London, 1850-1900". Book by Charles Stewart, p. 33, 1901.

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• What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Book, Blessing, Able

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• Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still. For they must needs be present, that love and live in that which is omnipresent. In this divine glass, they see face to face; and their converse is free as well as pure. This is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal.

  William Penn

  Glasses, Sea, Faces

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.79, Courier Corporation

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• The most serious point in the case is the disposition of the child." What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining insight as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Children, Real, Character

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2012). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes: with an introduction from Robert Ryan”, p.844, Simon and Schuster

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• The Swedish he knew was mostly from Bergman films. He had learned it as a college student, matching the subtitles to the sounds. In Swedish, he could only converse on the darkest of subjects.

  Ann Patchett

  College, Matching, Sound

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• You must converse much with the field and the woods if you would imbibe such health into your mind and spirit as you covet for your body

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mind, Body, Woods

  Henry David Thoreau, Joseph O. Valentine, Thoreau Society (2001). “Thoreau on Land: Nature's Canvas”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You should carefully study the Art of Reasoning, as it is what most people are very deficient in, and I know few things more disagreeable than to argue, or even converse with a man who has no idea of inductive and deductive philosophy.

  William John Wills

  Art, Philosophy, Men

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• Think of these pages as graffiti maybe, and where I have scratched up in a public place my longings and loves, my grievances and indecencies, be reminded in private of your own. In that way, at least, we can hold a kind of converse.

  Frederick Buechner

  Love, Thinking, Age

  Frederick Buechner (1970). “The alphabet of grace”

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• Maybe the gift of any great person is the power to converse with our own hearts.

  Randall Wallace

  Heart, Great Person, Persons

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• An odd contradiction, if the layman were correct in his unconscious assumption that an artist begins with reality and ends with art: the converse is true - to the degree that this dichotomy has any truth - the artist begins with art, and through it arrives at reality.

  Robert Motherwell

  Art, Reality, Degrees

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• Words learn'd by rote a parrot may rehearse, But talking is not always to converse, Not more distinct from harmony divine The constant creaking of a country sign.

  William Cowper

  Country, Talking, May

  William Cowper, Henry Stebbing (1869). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper, Esq: Including the Hymns and Translations from Madame Guion, Milton, Etc. ; with a Memoir of the Author”, p.128

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• We twain have met like the ships upon the sea, Who behold an hour's converse, so short, so sweet: One little hour! and then, away they speed On lonely paths, through mist, and cloud, and foam, To meet no more.

  Alexander Smith

  Lonely, Sweet, Clouds

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• You can't converse with Alzheimer's sufferers in the way you do with others; the dialogue tends to go round in circles.

  Kevin Whately

  Alzheimer's, Circles, Way

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• To be pure in heart is to take no delight in cunning, but converse sincerely with men, and express nothing, by word or look, which is not felt in the heart.

  John Calvin

  Heart, Men, Looks

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• At the bottom of philosophy something very true and very desperate whispers: Everyone is hungry all the time. Everyone is starving. Everyone wants so much, much more than they can stomach, but the appetite doesn't converse much with the stomach. Everyone is hungry and not only for food - for comfort and love and excitement and the opposite of being alone. Almost everything awful anyone does is to get those things and keep them.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Philosophy, Opposites, And Love

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• To be crazy is not necessarily to writhe in snake pits or converse with imaginary gods. It can sometimes be not knowing what to do in the morning.

  Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

  Morning, Crazy, Snakes

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• Humility mainly becometh the converse of man with his Maker.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Humility, Men, Makers

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1867). “Proverbial Philosophy: (the First and Second Series)”, p.57

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• We live in a small world. Not a leaf falls that doesn't affect a myriad of things. When we reach out to someone in love and the effect is made - everyone, everything which comes in contact with the person we've effected is better for it. Of course, the converse is true, too.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Fall, World, Made

  Interview with Veronica M. Hay, A Magazine of People and Possibilities, www.peopleandpossibilities.com. 1998.

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• I can never tell what I'm gonna wear. I kind of just put on whatever feels right. Sometimes that's Converse and a T-shirt, sometimes it's Givenchy heels and leather pants.

  Willow Smith

  Leather Pants, Kind, Sometimes

  "Willow Smith shows off wild side in Karl Lagerfeld photo shoot, but says she just wants to 'chill'" by Rebecca Pocklington, www.mirror.co.uk. January 14, 2014.

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• I wear anything I feel like. If I want to put on a pair of Converse with a pencil stuck through them, I will.

  Willow Smith

  Want, Pairs, Stuck

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

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• To read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Men, Letters

  Samuel Johnson (1848). “The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler”, p.419

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• Among the numerous requisites that must concur to complete an author, few are of more importance than an early entrance into the living world. The seed of knowledge may be planted in solitude, but must be cultivated in public. Argumentation may be taught in colleges, and theories formed in retirement; but the artifice of embellishment and the powers of attraction can be gained only by a general converse.

  Samuel Johnson

  Retirement, Writing, College

  Samuel Johnson (1977). “Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.215, Univ of California Press

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• I knew the stars, the flowers, and the birds, The gray and wintry sides of many glens, And did but half remember human words, In converse with the mountains, moors, and fens.

  John Millington Synge

  Stars, Flower, Bird

  John Millington Synge (2014). “Synge: Complete Plays: In the Shadow of the Glen; Riders to the Sea; The Tinker's Wedding; The Well of the Saints; The Playboy of the Western World; Deirdre of the Sorrows”, p.31, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The disciples were not losing time when they sat beside their Master, and held quiet converse with Him under the olives of Bethany or by the shores of Galilee. Those were their school-hours; those were their feeding times.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  School, Olives, Losing

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 376, 1895.

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