(1105 quotes found)
“Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.”
Oscar Wilde
“The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”
“A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation”
Mark Twain
“Sometimes I wish that I was the weather, you'd bring me up in conversation forever. And when it rained, I'd be the talk of the day.”
John Mayer
“The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.”
Winston Churchill
“What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.”
Anatole France
“Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.”
Peter Ustinov
“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.”
Plato
“There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.”
Rebecca West