Quotes with dinner-conversation

Quotes 161 till 180 of 220.

  • Winston Churchill The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Cyril Northcote Parkinson The effectiveness of a telephone conversation is in inverse proportion to the time spent on it.
    New York Times Magazine Now Parkinsons Telephone Law, 12 April 1964
    Cyril Northcote Parkinson
    British naval historian (1909 - 1993)
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  • Bill Buford The first glimpse I had of what Mario Batali's friends had described to me as the 'myth of Mario' was on a cold Saturday night in January 2002, when I invited him to a birthday dinner.
    Bill Buford
    American author and journalist
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  • Sir William Temple The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
    Sir William Temple
    British Diplomat, Essayist (1628 - 1699)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Benjamin Franklin 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.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Samuel Johnson The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered but a general effect of pleasing impression.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Oscar Wilde The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Wilde The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Booth Tarkington The middle-aged stranger whom I met by chance upon the lower rocks at Mary's Neck, that salt-washed promontory of the New England coast, was at first taciturn but became voluble when a little conversation developed the fact that we were both from the Midland country.
    Booth Tarkington
    American novelist and dramatist (1869 - 1946)
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  • George Santayana The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • René Descartes The reading of all good books is like a conversation with all the finest men of past centuries.
    René Descartes
    French philosopher, scientist (1596 - 1650)
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  • Dorothy Nevill The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Bee Wilson The saddest utensil I've come across is an 'anti-loneliness ramen bowl,' which holds your iPhone to keep you company as you slurp your solitary bowl of noodles. But the iPhone cannot return your gaze or reassure you that you didn't squeeze too much lime into the soup, though maybe a dinner-conversation app is only a matter of time.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Herbert Hoover The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.
    Herbert Hoover
    American engineer, businessman and politician (1874 - 1964)
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  • Barbara Bush The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • William Hazlitt There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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