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Conversation

«Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory»
Author: Emily Post | About: Conversation | Keywords: eloquent, exhibition, oratory
«If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating»
Author: Leigh Hunt (Writer) | About: Conversation | Keywords: flagging
«It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then»
Author: Richard Armour | About: Conversation
«Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know»
«Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty»
«It was impossible to get a conversation going; everybody was talking too much.»
«I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.»
«Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.»
«I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.»
«Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood»

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