Converses Quotes - Page 9

• Bowing, ceremonious, formal compliments, stiff civilities, will never be politeness; that must be easy, natural, unstudied; and what will give this but a mind benevolent and attentive to exert that amiable disposition in trifles to all you converse and live with?

  William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

  Giving, Mind, Compliment

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• The characteristic of a well-bred man is, to converse with his inferiors without insolence, and with his superiors with respect and with ease.

  Doug Stanhope

  Respect, Men, Ease

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• Whatever distrust we may have of the sincerity of those who converse with us, we always believe they will tell us more truth than they do to others.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Confidence, Believe, May

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• Were you to converse with a king, you ought to be as easy and unembarrassed as with your own valet-de chambre; but yet every look,word, and action should imply the utmost respect.... You must wait till you are spoken to; you must receive, not give, the subject of conversation, and you must even take care that the given subject of such conversation do not lead you into any impropriety.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Kings, Giving, Waiting

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.268, OUP Oxford

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• In an economy, an act, a habit, an institution, or a law, gives birth not only to an effect, but to a series of effects. Of these effects, the first only is immediate; it manifests itself simultaneously with its cause - it is seen. The others unfold in succession - they are not seen. Now this difference is enormous, for it is often true that when the immediate consequence is favorable, the ultimate consequences are fatal, and the converse.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Law, Differences, Giving

  "That Which Is Seen and That Which Is Not Seen". Book by Frédéric Bastiat, 1850.

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• 'Tis social converse, animates the soul.

  Mercy Otis Warren

  Women, Soul, Social

  Mercy Otis Warren (1790). “Poems, dramatic and miscellaneous”, p.213

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• Happily, and thanks to God, there are orifices through which our inner life constantly escapes, and the soul, like the blood, hath its pores. The mouth is the chief and foremost of these channels which lead the soul out of its invisible sanctuary; it is by speech that man communicates the secret converse which is his real life.

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  Real, Men, Blood

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• Consider how august a privilege it is, when angels are present, and archangels throng around, when cherubim and seraphim encircle with their blaze the throne, that a mortal may approach with unrestrained confidence, and converse with heaven's dread Sovereign! O, what honor was ever conferred like this?

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Prayer, Angel, August

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 459, 1895.

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• There is this value in books, that they enable us to converse with the dead. There is something in this beyond the mere intrinsic worth of what they have left us.

  Egerton Brydges

  Book, Mere, Left

  Sir Egerton Brydges, Robert Pearse Gillies (1813). “The Ruminator: containing a series of moral, critical, and sentimental essays”, p.143

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• The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues, with the advantage that the ocular dialect needs no dictionary, but is understood all the world over.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Men, Needs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.410

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• Many can argue - not many converse.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Inspirational, Communication, Arguing

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1872). “Concord Days”, p.75

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• To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare.

  Yoshida Kenko

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Yoshida Kenko (2009). “Essays in Idleness”, p.8, Cosimo, Inc.

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• There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot successfully be put into equations, because it is nonsense.

  Clifford Truesdell

  Funny, Fear, Science

  Clifford Truesdell (1966). “Six lectures on modern natural philosophy”, Springer

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• It is pleasant to spend time with Him, to lie close to His breast like the Beloved Disciple and to feel the infinite love present in His Heart....how can we not feel a renewed need to spend time in spiritual converse, in silent adoration, in heartfelt love before Christ present in the Most Holy Sacrament?

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Spiritual, Lying

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• My horses understand me tolerably well; I converse with them at least four hours every day. They are strangers to bridle or saddle; they live in great amity with me, and friendship of each other.

  Jonathan Swift

  Horse, Four, Stranger

  Jonathan Swift (1826). “Gulliver's Travels”

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• I can't count how many pairs of Converse shoes I own.

  Selena

  Shoes, Pairs, I Can

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• We are wont to see friendship solely as a phenomenon of intimacy in which the friends open their hearts to each other unmolested by the world and its demands...Thus it is hard for us to understand the political relevance of friendship...But for the Greeks the essence of friendship consisted in discourse...The converse (in contrast to the intimate talk in which individuals speak about themselves), permeated though it may be by pleasure in the friend’s presence, is concerned with the common world.

  Hannah Arendt

  Heart, Essence, Political

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• I could never muster the courage to speak to girls in my college in Pune. Most of them were Parsis and spoke English. I came from a village and could barely converse in English.

  Sharad Pawar

  Girl, College, Village

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• If (O.J. Simpson) is acquitted, I will renounce my citizenship. And if I converse with him at a cocktail party, I will say, 'Well, there are so many people here who haven't murdered anyone. I think I'll go talk to them.' I'll also riot.

  Dick Cavett

  Party, Thinking, People

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• To converse at the distance of the Indes by means of sympathetic contrivances may be as natural to future times as to us is a literary correspondence.

  Joseph Glanvill

  Distance, Mean, May

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• We judge on the basis of what somebody looks like, skin color, whether we think they're beautiful or not. That space on the Internet allows you to converse with somebody with none of those things involved.

  Bell Hooks

  Beautiful, Thinking, Space

  "Bell Hooks talks to John Perry Barlow". www.lionsroar.com. September 1, 1995.

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• The pleasant converse of the fireside, the simple songs of home, the words of encouragement as I bend over my school-tasks, the kiss as I lie down to rest, the patient bearing with the freaks of my restless nature, the gentle counsels mingled with reproofs and approvals, the sympathy that meets and assuages every sorrow, and sweetens every little success--all these return to me amid the responsibilities which press upon me now, and I feel as if I had once lived in heaven, and, straying, had lost my way.

  J. G. Holland

  Song, Encouragement, Lying

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 325, 1895.

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• For converse among men, beautiful persons have less need of the mind's commending qualities. Beauty in itself is such a silent orator, that it is ever pleading for respect and liking, and by the eyes of others is ever sending, to their hearts for love.

  Owen Feltham

  Beauty, Beautiful, Eye

  Owen Feltham (1840). “Resolves: divine, moral and political”, p.89

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• To converse with Scandal is to play at Losing Loadum, you must lose a good name to him, before you can win it for yourself.

  William Congreve

  Winning, Play, Names

  William Congreve (2014). “Love for Love”, p.21, A&C Black

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• Faith converses with the angels, and antedates the hymns of glory.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Faith, Angel, Hymns

  Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1850). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: Sermons”, p.134

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