Conversation Quotes

So many of our conversations (about affirmative action) have been dishonest

Even an idle phone conversation when driving takes a 40 percent bite out of your focus and, surprisingly, can have the same effect as being drunk.

I’ve owned 41 airplanes. A few of them would talk with me. This little seaplane, though, we’ve had long conversations in flight.

No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.

Behind every communication problem is a sweaty ten-minute conversation that you don’t want to have.

We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.

And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

But when the veteran has a dog, the same people will come up and say, ‘Hi’ to pet the dog and then strike up a conversation.

In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.