Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

About Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German polymath who is widely regarded as the most influential writer in the German language. His work has had a wide-ranging influence on literary, political, Christian views, and philosophical thought in the Western world from the late...

More quotations from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

More quotations tagged with “conversation”

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

—George Bernard Shaw

To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.

—Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Few are agreeable in conversation, because each thinks more of what he intends to say than of what others are saying, and listens no more when he himself has a chance to speak.

—Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.

—Dr. Thomas Fuller

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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