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That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood. — Alexander Pope

There's not a lot of conversation going on in my world about softening my image. I'm pretty much who I am. — Christine Quinn

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. — Plato

The biblical purpose of every conversation you have, in every personal interaction, is that they person who hears you will receive grace. — C.J. Mahaney

Meanwhile in the valley, Alice was having a confusing conversation with a starling. — Steve Merrick

You should be allowed to scream in public whenever a conversation gets really awkward. And then time could reset itself and you get a do-over. — Danielle Vega

Mrs. Penniman always, even in conversation, italicised her personal pronouns. — Henry James

I didn't intend to go in that direction but strange things happen when the lights go out. — Donna Lynn Hope

Being British, I don't really have a way of expressing myself in conversation. Music transcends language. — James Blunt

We only really learn in conversation after sex. — Judith Merril

I never had a single conversation about politics with Ross Perot in my life; still haven't. — James Stockdale

A conversation began to take shape between us. A conversation that happened in unspoken words, in false words, in knowing glances. — Nadia Hashimi

Yeah, alright."
Anything to end this conversation about her father's breast. — Tracey Ward

But gossip must see its characters in black and white, equip them with sins and motives easily conveyed in the shorthand of conversation. — John Le Carre

Life doesn't move in straight lines, and neither does a good conversation. — Margaret J. Wheatley

Whatever you would have your children become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation. — Lydia Sigourney

It was the kind of conversation you could only hold in whispers. — Aimee Bender

My doctor says I must not have any serious conversation after seven [o'clock]. It makes me talk in my sleep. — Oscar Wilde

He's never quite got the trick of conversation, tending to hear in dissenting views, however mild, a kind of affront, an invitation to mortal combat. — Ian McEwan

Past conversations were slowly realigning in Blue's head, taking on new shades of meaning as they did. — Maggie Stiefvater

Ne speaketh not; and yet there lies a conversation in his eyes. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I keep repeating the conversation with Taduesz in mind, reaching out to touch it to make sure it doesn't disappear. — Brigid Pasulka

He regarded conversation as sport, and Lily loved anyone who regarded anything in life as sport (except for actual sports). — Jennifer DuBois

Through social media, we can start a global conversation. This creates an army of advocates - the power really is in the hands of the viewers. — Sam Branson

Do I belong in the conversation about the best artists in the world? My answer is yes, I do. — Billy Corgan

As long as everyone's wearing their own pants."
"I see I have come in on a fascinating moment in the conversation. — Cassandra Clare

It is an impertinent and unreasonable fault in conversation for one man to take up all the discourse. — Richard Steele

The Art of Conversation could not die in Australia; it never lived. Television did not kill it; there was nothing there to kill. — George Mikes

The 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 Rochefoucauld

And she also enjoyed a conversation on public questions which tended to take place in the parlour of the shop — Charles Moore

Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener. — Ambrose Bierce

It's ridiculous to leave all the conversation to the pudding! — Lewis Carroll

If to talk to oneself when alone is folly, it must be doubly unwise to listen to oneself in the presence of others. — Baltasar Gracian

Genuine people never seems to be in rush. In their conversation they make the other person feel special. — Kishore Bansal

After macrobiotics, Zen, and channeling, the "poor Vanishing Indian" is once more the subject of "deep and meaningful conversation" in the high rises. — Mary Brave Bird

Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book; in conversation a little excess is allowable. — Joseph Joubert

When you get to 60, the word "retirement" comes in on every conversation. — Ozzy Osbourne

She always carried a book, though, in case she needed to read a few pages to avoid unwanted conversation. — Charles Frazier

To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I have had a certain amount of experience with skepticism and the conversation it generates, and there is an inevitable futility in it. — Marilynne Robinson

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. — Emile M. Cioran

Conversation of the Day -
He: How do you describe yourself in two words?
Me: You don't. — Sanhita Baruah

The conversation topic in my head is not what role I should play; it is whether I am going to play at all. — Jonny Wilkinson

What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher. — William Glasser

I grew up in the sort of cultural milieu that always regarded conversations about the political discourse as tremendously low-brow. — Joseph Brodsky

The creative process is mysterious; a conversation, a ride in the car, or a melody can trigger something. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

The term 'laity' is one of the worst in the vocabulary of religion and ought to be banished from the Christian conversation. — Karl Barth

She hadn't meant to get trapped in a conversation. That was the trouble with offering help to old people. — Libba Bray

Fine, let's have the "We're-safe-in-here-it's-INSANE-for-you-to-go-out" conversation instead. — Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

I find that often simple words say all that needs to be said in less time, using less energy, with all the details wanted- fully in tact. Love it. — Sereda Aleta Dailey

The creative tension with spirituality vs. practicality in the world of politics is a vital conversation. — Tim Daly

I can't wait to be eighty. So I can shock people by saying "rim job" in casual conversation. — Lena Dunham

As an introvert, you crave intimate moments and deep connections--and those usually aren't found in a crowd. — Jenn Granneman

Sometimes I wish that I was the weather, you'd bring me up in conversation forever. And when it rained, I'd be the talk of the day. — John Mayer

It is a lovely oddity of human nature that a person is more inclined to interrupt two people in conversation than one person alone with a book. — Amor Towles

I don't believe in literature-I believe in conversation. — Marty Rubin

My preferred pastimes are conversation, reading, travel and writing, in that order. — Truman Capote

Shyness means you are in the hallway of a greater presence. You just don't know how to take the conversation another step. It's a lovely indication. — David Whyte

Some preliminary conversation, he said, You look like you're in a good place, despite the bad times I understand you've been through. — Spencer Johnson

The conversation had been so lacking in quality that it actually made Toddlers and Tiaras look like good entertainment by comparison. — Sorin Suciu

Most English talk is a quadrille in a sentry-box. — Henry James

There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit. — Stephen Leacock

Man is the broken giant, and in all his weakness both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation with nature. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Most of the time, communication gets confused with conversation. In fact, the two are distinctly different. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

That conversation ... was as dirty as a sewer! It is not enough for you to take no part in it. You must show your repugnance for it strongly! — Josemaria Escriva

Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe. — Epictetus

I used to always read with a pen in my hand, as if the author and I were in a conversation. — Tara Bray Smith

Good conversational debate is an end in itself, and talking for the love of conversation is what makes us human. — Bryce Courtenay

The most influential of all educational factor is the conversation in a child's home. — William Temple

At some point in my early forties I realized that my primary goal in just about any verbal exchange is to lighten the mood. — Meghan Daum

There is something hugely civilised about allowing long pauses in a conversation. Very few people can stand that kind of silence. — James Robertson

Plato worried that philosophical writing would take the place of living conversations for which, in philosophy, there is no substitute. — Rebecca Goldstein

Much of the conversation in the country consisted of lines from television shows, both past and present. — Kurt Vonnegut

Man Ray takes a lot of pressure off me. It's like having a third person in a conversation; one of you doesn't have to talk all the time. — William Wegman

There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk to much. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

This place of mine never is entered by humans come for conversation, only by the mute moon's light shafts that slip in between the trees. — Saigyo

You know you're in love when the most interesting conversation you have with the opposite gender is about the one you claim to be in love with. — Andrew King

Maybe we should have this conversation in an alternate universe where Alternate Indy gives a shit what Alternate Lee wants her to wear. — Kristen Ashley

Out of Dostoevsky: Kafka. Out of Tolstoy: Margaret Mitchell.
(in conversation, explaining his dislike for Tolstoy) — Joseph Brodsky

C-C-Can you get bones in your buh-buh-brain?' Bill asked. This was turning into the most interesting conversation he'd had in weeks. — Stephen King

Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty. — Joseph Addison

They listen more than they talk, think before they speak, and often feel as if they express themselves better in writing than in conversation. — Susan Cain

No one is qualified to converse in public except those contented to do without such conversation. — Thomas A Kempis

If the lift is broken, I'll just sit and wait for them to sort it out. I don't believe in friendly conversation or chit-chat. — Marco Pierre White

I don't have to tell you, once you get a corpse really caught up in conversation, your battle's half over. — William Goldman

People love conversation, and movies are conversations, and an audience has to participate; it has to fill in some blanks. — Peter Hedges

The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation. — Michel De Montaigne

Promise me this conversation won't leave this table."
He leaned in, his face serious. "What happens in the mall stays in the mall. — Lucy McConnell

Odd, she thought of him as her friend though in truth they had shared only one brief conversation. — Lois Lowry

Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence. — Robertson Davies

I've never been convinced that everything in a relationship needs to be talked about. Some things can't be fixed by a conversation — Lisa Kleypas

I think someone's conversation, whether in e-mail or in person, should be private. — Brad Pitt

HOW CAN WE EFFECT CHANGE IN THE WORLD WHEN ONLY HALF OF IT IS INVITED OR FEEL WELCOME TO PARTICIPATE IN THE CONVERSATION? — Emma Watson

Life, this endless conversation with yourself. Silent in sanity, audible in madness. — Zohra Sehgal

Say the first word. Set the tone for the conversation. Be poised, prepared, and ready to say the first word in any debate or meeting. — Gloria Feldt

Prayer is not about informing or persuading God but about connecting with Him in relationship. He is looking for conversation and dialogue with — Mike Bickle

That silence is one of the great arts of conversation is allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an art, but even an eloquence in it — Hannah More

Our companions please us less from the charms we find in their conversation than from those they find in ours. — Sir Fulke Greville

If you should attempt to maintain that film is an art in conversation with a cultured, intelligent American, he'll just plain stop talking to you. — Ilya Ilf

Stop talking about inclusion and engagement and start including and engaging in every conversation, every meeting. — Susan Scott