| Author |
Quotes |
| Alexander Pope | Form'd by thy converse, happily steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe. |
| Andre Maurois | Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know. |
| Bible | We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company. |
| Edward Young | A dearth of words a woman need not fear; But 'tis a task indeed to learn to hear: In that the skill of conversation lies; That shows and makes you both polite and wise. |
| George Sala | Not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years' study of books. |
| Homer | Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind. |
| Izaak Walton | I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing. |
| John Byrom | With good and gentle-humored hearts I choose to chat where'er I come Whate'er the subject be that starts. But if I get among the glum I hold my tongue to tell the truth And keep my breath to cool my broth. |
| John Byrom | In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve. |
| John Gay | I never, with important air, In conversation overbear. . . . . My tongue within my lips I rein; For who talks much must talk in vain. |
| John Gay | With thee conversing I forget the way. |
| John Locke | I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits. |
| John Milton | With thee conversing I forget all time: All seasons and their change, all please alike. |
| Joseph Addison | Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood. |
| Mark Twain | A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation. |
| Oliver Goldsmith | They would talk of nothing but high life and high-lived company, with other fashionable topics, such as pictures, taste, Shakespeare, and the musical glasses. |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr | And when you stick on conversation's burs, Don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs. |
| Pope John Paul II | The Holy Land needs bridges, not walls. |
| Robert Benchley | Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. |
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