Quotes with conversation

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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes And when you stick on conversation's burrs, don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Jonathan Swift Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Clive James As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.
    Clive James
    Australian author, poet, translator and memoirist (1939 - 2019)
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  • John Donne At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament, except they be so incorporated into the body of the world that they contribute something to the sustentation of the whole.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Abraham H. Maslow Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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  • Jeremy Collier Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
    Jeremy Collier
    English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian (1650 - 1726)
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  • Bo Burnham Comedy should be a source of positivity. I don't want to bully people, and I don't want people to come to my show to feel terrible about something. So I'm actually very open to having a conversation about what I should or shouldn't say.
    Bo Burnham
    American comedian, musician, actor and poet (1990 - )
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Agnes Repplier Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about.
    Agnes Repplier
    American writer and social criticus (1855 - 1950)
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  • Herb Shriner Conversation is three women stand on the corner talking. Gossip is when one of them leaves.
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  • Anna Jameson Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.
    Anna Jameson
    Anglo-Irish art historian (1794 - 1860)
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  • William Shakespeare Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affection, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • André Maurois Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
    André Maurois
    French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
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  • W. H. Auden Criticism should be a casual conversation.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Amos Bronson Alcott Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.
    Amos Bronson Alcott
    American educator and social reformer (1799 - 1888)
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  • Cameron Sinclair Design is about creating spaces for people to enjoy and of course, creating moments where you elevate the spirit, but 'design for good' is figuring out a program that not only creates better spaces, but creates jobs, creates new industry and really kind of raises the conversation about how we rebuild.
    Cameron Sinclair
    British architect and writer (1973 - )
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  • Billy Corgan Do I belong in the conversation about the best artists in the world? My answer is yes, I do.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Kin Hubbard Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
    Kin Hubbard
    American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
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  • George Santayana Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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