Conversation Quotes - Quotations and Proverbs on Conversation

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius. – Gibbon
Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student. – Emerson
Conversation means being able to disagree and still continue the conversation. – Dwight Macdonald
The art of conversation consists as much in listening politely as in talking agreeably. – Atwell
Silence is one great art of conversation. – Hazlitt
Debate is masculine; conversation is feminine. – Alcott
Conceit causes more conversation than wit. – La Rochefouecauld
Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence. – Vermont Proverb
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at tempting moment. – Dorothy Nevill
Silence and modesty are very valuable qualities in conversation. – Montaique
Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about. – Agnes Repplier
In my opinion, the most fruitful and natural play of the mind is conversation. The study of books is a dull and drowsy exercise which does not warm you up. – Montaigne
One half our best societies is always telling the other half what it does not wish to know, but the two halves take turns, and this establishes the conversation, usually on a peaceful basis. – Frank Moore Colby
The less men think; the more they talk. – Montesquieu
A Good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember. – John Mason Brown
It takes a great man to make a good listener. – Sir Arthur Helps
If you don’t say anything, you won’t be called on to repeat it. – Calvin Coolidge
When in the company of sensible men, we ought to be doubly cautions of talking too much, lest we lose two good things - their good opinion and our own improvement; for what we have to say we know, but what they have to say we know not. – C. C. Colton
To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. – Will and Ariel Durant
No man would listen to your talk if he didn’t know it was his turn next. – Ed Howe
The first ingredient in conversation is truth; the next, good sense; the third, good humor; the fourth it. – Sir W. Temple