conversation

Debate is masculine conversation is feminine.

You can never hope to become a skilled conversationalist until you learn how to put your foot tactfully through the television set.

Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.

Wit is the salt of conversation not the food.

Too much agreement kills a chat.

Never hold any one by the button or the hand in order to be heard out for if people are unwilling to hear you you had better hold your tongue than them.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.

As I got warmed up and felt perfectly at home in talk I heard myself boasting lying exaggerating. Oh not deliberately far from it. It would be unconvivial and dull to stop and arrest the flow of talk and speak only after carefully considering whether I was telling the truth.

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward and we want to sit in their radius. When we are listened to it creates us makes us unfold and expand.

Silence is one great art of conversation.

The less men think the more they talk.

A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas.

Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.

A ceremony of self-wastage - good talkers are miserable they know that they have betrayed themselves that they have taken material which should have a life of its own to disperse it in noises upon the air.

People love to talk but hate to listen. Listening is not merely not talking though even that is beyond most of our powers it means taking a vigorous human interest in what is being told us. You can listen like a blank wall or like a splendid auditorium where every sound comes back fuller and richer.

Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues. That is all.

Great talkers are trying to fill the gap between themselves and others but only widen it.