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Quotes about conversation
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Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine. (Cruise Tom)
It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then. (Cruise Tom)
A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember. (Cruise Tom)
Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them. (Cruise Tom)
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There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation! A human being, Hastings, cannot resist the opportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away. (Cruise Tom)
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. (Cruise Tom)
Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape. (Cruise Tom)
Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as it indicates the coolest yet quickest exercise of genius, at a moment when the passions are roused. (Cruise Tom)
Reply to wit with gravity, and to gravity with wit. (Cruise Tom)
I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull. (Cruise Tom)
I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man. (Cruise Tom)
Mediocre people have an answer for everything and are astonished at nothing. They always want to have the air of knowing better than you what you are going to tell them; when, in their turn, they begin to speak, they repeat to you with the greatest confidence, as if dealing with their own property, the things that they have heard you say yourself at some other place. A capable and superior look is the natural accompaniment of this type of character. (Cruise Tom)
No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi. (Cruise Tom)
In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step, using every time an old boulder, yet never setting his foot on an old place. (Cruise Tom)
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors. (Cruise Tom)
The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken to what is said and to answer to the purpose. (Cruise Tom)
In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge. (Cruise Tom)
Saying what we think gives a wider range of conversation than saying what we know. (Cruise Tom)
Nothing lowers the level on conversation more than raising the voice. (Cruise Tom)
If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating. (Cruise Tom)
There is nothing that exasperates people more than a display of superior ability or brilliance in conversation. They seem pleased at the time, but their envy makes them curse the conversationalist in their heart. (Cruise Tom)
The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered but a general effect of pleasing impression. (Cruise Tom)
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read. (Cruise Tom)
No one is qualified to converse in public except those contented to do without such conversation. (Cruise Tom)
We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore. (Cruise Tom)
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