Polite conversation is rarely either.

Author: Fran Lebowitz

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Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.

Humility is no substitute for a good personality.

If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater, suggest that he wear a tail.

As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.