Quotes about Conversation
We should talk over the lessons of the day, or lose them in Music, Chess, or the merriments of our family companions.
— Thomas Jefferson
From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way.
— George Bernard Shaw
A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
— Henry Ward Beecher
All His glory and beauty come from within, and there He delights to dwell, His visits there are frequent, His conversation sweet, His comforts refreshing; and His peace passing all understanding.
— Thomas a Kempis
Who would not spout the family teapot in order to talk with Keats for an hour about poetry, or with Jane Austen about the art of fiction?
— Virginia Woolf
When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.
— Abraham Lincoln
Listen. Don't just wait to talk.
— Donald Trump
Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
— William Hazlitt
The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
— William Howard Taft
Observe, farther, how the same doctrine is taught by St. Peter: "As He which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation." [1 Pet. i. 15]
— William Law
Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen