Conversation Quotes

Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

A person isn’t who they are during the last conversation you had with them – they’re who they’ve been throughout your whole relationship.

Markets are conversations.

A conversation does not have to be scintillating in order to be memorable. I once met a president of the United States, and his second sentence to me was about knees.

It wasn’t only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public.

How can life be worth living, if devoid Of the calm trust reposed by friend in friend? What sweeter joy than in the kindred soul, Whose converse differs not from self-communion?

Because the rhythm of conversation makes no allowance for dead periods, because the presence of others calls for continuous responses, we are left to regret the inanity of what we say, and the missed opportunity of what we do not.

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.

What is truly a part of our spiritual path is that which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, that is part of our path, if it is music, if it is conversation we must follow what brings us alive.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.