“Can we talk?”
“With thee conversing I forget all time.”
“Conceit causes more conversation than wit.”
“Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.”
“Reply to wit with gravity, and to gravity with wit.”
“The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.”
“If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.”
“Nothing lowers the level on conversation more than raising the voice.”
“Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors.”
“There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.”
“I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.”
“The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.”
“I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.”
“We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.”
“In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.”
“Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.”
“I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man.”
“It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then.”
“Saying what we think gives a wider range of conversation than saying what we know.”
“She has lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.”
“If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating.”
“Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in.”
“Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.”
“And when you stick on conversation's burrs, don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs.”
“Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.”
“No one is qualified to converse in public except those contented to do without such conversation.”
“The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.”
“A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.”
“A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.”
“There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.”