Reply to wit with gravity, and to gravity with wit.Charles Caleb Colton
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.Michel de Montaigne
The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.George Santayana
There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.Rebecca West
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.Emil Cioran
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors.Ralph Waldo Emerson
We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.Unknown
If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating.James Henry Leigh Hunt
Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.Joseph Roux
The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.William Temple
Things said for conversation are chalk eggs. Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.Unknown
No one is qualified to converse in public except those contented to do without such conversation.Thomas-Kempis
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.Samuel Johnson
Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.Unknown
The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The true worth of a man is not to be found in the man himself, but in the colors and texture that come alive in others.Albert Schweitzer
If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.Mel Brooks
All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.W.H. Auden
Among the several kinds of beauty, the eye takes most delight in colors. Joseph Addison
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