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Letter "C" » Conversation
«Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory»
«If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating»
«It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then»
Author: Richard Armour
| About:
Conversation
«Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know»
Author: Andre Maurois
(Biographer, Essayist, Novelist)
| About:
Conversation
| Keywords:
improved, vastly
«Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| About:
Beauty,
Conversation,
Nature,
Wit
| Keywords:
agreeable, amiable, countenance, good nature
«It was impossible to get a conversation going; everybody was talking too much.»
Author: Yogi Berra
(Baseball Player, Manager)
| About:
Conversation
| Keywords:
conversation, talking, too much
«I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Conversation
| Keywords:
adds, quote, quotes, quoting, spice, spiced
«Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Conversation,
Focus
| Keywords:
concentrate, concentrates, conversation, get in touch, Itself, touch, touch on, touch up
«I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.»
«Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Conversation
| Keywords:
affectation, affectations, indecencies, indecency, novel, scurrility, wittiest, witty
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