Conversation Quotes

"Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes."

Robert Louis Stevenson

"Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food."

William Hazlitt

“It was impossible to get a conversation going; everybody was talking too much.”

“Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”

“I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.”

"I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation."

“Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.”

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“To be interesting, be interested.”

Dale Carnegie

“Talking is like playing on the harp; there is as much in laying the hands on the strings to stop their vibration as in twanging them.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

“Speech belongs half to the speaker, half to the listener.”

Michel de Montaigne

“One of the reasons why so few of us are ever found to be agreeable in conversation is that most of us are thinking more about what we are going to say than about what others are saying.”

François de La Rochefoucauld

“A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.”

Chinese Proverb

“Conversation: a fair for the display of the minor mental commodities, each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own wares to observe those of his neighbour.”

Ambrose Bierce

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

William Hazlitt

“I like talking to a brick wall; it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me.”