Conversation Quotes
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See also Core English Vocabulary (C) List :: Top 1,000 UK English Words (#3) List :: Top 3,000 American English Words (#02) List-
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt
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You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
Plato
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There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.
Mary Worley Montagu
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Debate is the death of conversation.
Kitty O`Neill Collins
Subject: Debate QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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A collection of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.
Janet Watson
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There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.
James Nathan Miller
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There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.
James Nathan Miller
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"Conversation"
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Keywords: conversationSource: thinkexist.com
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The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
Dorothy Nevill
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A single conversation across the table with a wise person is worth a month`s study of books
Chinese Proverbs
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To listen well, is as powerful a means of influence as to talk well, and is as essential to all true conversation
Chinese Proverbs
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Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Subject: Debate QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.
Adrienne Camfield
Subject: Education QuotesSource: quotationspage.com
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Don`t knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn`t start a conversation if it didn`t change once in a while.
Kin Hubbard
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To harken to evil conversation is the road to wickedness.. (Pravis Assuescere Sermonibus Est Via Ad Rem Ipsam)
Anonymous
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`Make a remark,` said the Red Queen; `it`s ridiculous to leave all the conversation to the pudding!`
Lewis Carroll
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A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That`s why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
Truman Capote
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Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood
William Shakespeare
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Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.
Oscar Wilde
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Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Oscar Wilde
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It was impossible to get a conversation going; everybody was talking too much.
Yogi Berra
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The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak.
Winston Churchill
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The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.
Winston Churchill
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The difficulty with this conversation is that it`s very different from most of the ones I`ve had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.
Douglas Adams
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A recent conversation: Dubya: Look at the clock, time is racing! Cheney: That`s the second hand, George.
Dennis Miller
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A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb?
Rudolf Nureyev
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Nothing`s ever guaranteed. It`s all math, like, `This guy has better numbers, so give the job to him.` If the business people think they can make money with you, it`s not, like, a deep conversation that they have about you. Actors can get into a rhythm of...
Val Kilmer
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[on his first lunch meeting with George Lucas]: I liked him. The conversation was divided culturally by 8,000 miles and 30 years; but I think we might understand each other if I can get past his intensity.
Alec Guinness
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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you. You`re in a conversation and everybody`s agreeing with what you`re saying -- even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don`t want to hear.
Robert De Niro
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