More quotations tagged with “conversation”
It's always difficult to make conversation with a drunk, and there's no denying it, the sober are at a disadvantage with him.
—William Shakespeare
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, 'there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.' A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.
—W. Somerset Maugham
He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
—Tom Blair
Your ignorance, cramps my conversation.
—Sydney Smith
I don't know how to have casual conversation. You think you're talking about one thing, and either you are and it's incredibly boring, or you're not because it's subtext and you need a decoder ring.
—Sir Anthony Hawkins