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.
Jane AustenUltimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.
Oscar WildeI cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written.
Paulo CoelhoI often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
George Bernard ShawConceit causes more conversation than wit.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWhat is reading but silent conversation.
Charles LambMethod is not less requisite in conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood.
Joseph AddisonYou can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
PlatoIt may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly those who dispute with one another at last agree.
Elbert HubbardI just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerNo one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.
Christopher MorleyNoise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.
Mark TwainShe had lost the art of conversation, but not unfortunately the power of speech.
George Bernard ShawThe best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.
Winston ChurchillThe poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak.
Winston ChurchillWit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William HazlittConversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
Andre MauroisA happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
Andre MauroisLogic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation.
Mason CooleyCourage and willingness to just go for it, whether it is a conversation or a spontaneous trip, or trying new things that are scary - it is a really attractive quality.
Alanis MorissetteIf you're yelling, you're the one who's lost control of the conversation.
Taylor SwiftPolite conversation is rarely either.
Fran LebowitzA 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.
Emile M. CioranWhen a man says he had pleasure with a woman, he does not mean conversation.
Samuel JohnsonConfidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
Francois de La RochefoucauldA man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
Mark TwainMarriage is one long conversation chequered by disputes.
Robert Louis StevensonSilence is one of the great arts of conversation.
Marcus Tullius CiceroLet us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.
Mark TwainThere is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
Michel de MontaigneHowever greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible, but not attractive.
Fran LebowitzMy own view is that taping of conversations for historical purposes was a bad decision on the part of all the presidents. I don't think Kennedy should have done it. I don't think Johnson should have done it and I don't think we should have done it.
Richard M. NixonConversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Oscar WildeTwitter is my bar. I sit at the counter and listen to the conversations, starting others, feeling the atmosphere.
Paulo CoelhoOn our watch the conversation with a would-be suicide bomber will not begin with the words 'You have the right to remain silent.'
Mitt RomneyThe trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation, but not the power of speech.
George Bernard ShawThe telephone which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations has a romance of its own.
Virginia WoolfHe'd tried to strike up a conversation with her.
Dave BarryAn American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting, and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion he will say "Gentlemen" to the person with whom he is conversing.
Alexis de TocquevilleThe happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.
Samuel JohnsonThe reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
Francois de La RochefoucauldI find myself having these conversations where I go...You know the guy in that place. The guy in the place with the thing you know. And it becomes this game of charades. And then finally we realize that I mean the Pope.
Dave BarryI really don't want to turn this season every [media] session into a me-and-Phil conversation.
Kobe Bryant