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Don Draper1 quote
If you don’t like what is being said, then change the conversation. — Don Draper · 2009Emily Post1 quote
Ideal conversation is an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory. — Emily Post · 1922Guy de Maupassant1 quote
Conversation... Is the art of never appearing a bore, of knowing how to say everything interestingly, to entertain with no matter what, to be charming with nothing at all. — Guy de Maupassant · 1876Kazuo Ishiguro1 quote
Perhaps it is indeed time I began to look at this whole matter of bantering more enthusiastically. After all, when one thinks about it, it is not such a foolish thing to indulge in-particularly if it is the case that in bantering lies the key to human warmth. — Kazuo Ishiguro · 1989Larry David1 quote
He wanted to stop and chat with me and I don't know him well enough for a stop and chat. — Larry David · 2001Lewis Carroll1 quote
"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes—and ships—and sealing wax—
Of cabbages—and kings—
And why the sea is boiling hot—
And whether pigs have wings." — Lewis Carroll · 1871Margaret Millar1 quote
Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness. — Margaret Millar · 1942Sir Richard Steele1 quote
When you fall into a man's conversation, the first thing you should consider is, whether he has a greater inclination to hear you, or that you should hear him. — Sir Richard Steele · 1711Tony Soprano1 quote
"Remember when" is the lowest form of conversation. — Tony Soprano · 2007William Hazlitt1 quote
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food. — William Hazlitt · 1819