Quotes: conversation
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
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Seneca
Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright
5 BC - 65 A.D.
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insinuating and insidious something that elicits secrets just like love or liquor.
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Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.
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Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.
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True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
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'SNL' is one of those jobs where you are constantly reminded of how lucky you are and that you get to meet some of these people whose work you enjoy. Then you get to meet them, and they are just wonderful people. It turns out wonderfully, and you have a great conversation.
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A child needs to be listened to and talked to at 3 and 4 and 5 years of age. Parents should not wait for the sophisticated conversation of a teenager.
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A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
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A few weeks ago, I was at the gym, talking to a friend about politics. Overhearing the conversation, a young man - maybe 25 years old - interrupted to say, 'Obama? He hasn't done a single thing!'
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Mark Twain
American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
1835-1910
A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.
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A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
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A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
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A man may forgive many wrongs, but he cannot easily forgive anyone who makes it plain that his conversation is tedious.
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.
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