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A man is seldom better than his conversation. German Proverb Talk 1,334
Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood. William Shakespeare Talk 187
When the eyes say one thing and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first. Ralph Waldo Emerson Talk 139
The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than about what others are saying, and we never listen when we are eager to speak. FranÃ§ois de La Rochefoucauld Talk 105
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 BruyÃ¨re Talk 102
Conversation should touch everything but should concentrate itself on nothing. Oscar Wilde Talk 101
The pith of conversation does not consist in exhibiting your own superior knowledge on matters of small importance, but enlarging, improving and correcting information you possess, by the authority of others. Walter Scott Talk 98
Never close your lips to those to whom you have opened your heart. Charles Dickens Talk 98
Conversation: A fair for the display of the minor mental commodities, each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own wares to observe those of his neighbor. Ambrose Bierce Talk 91
No mortal has a right to wag his tongue, much less to wag his pen, without saying something. Thomas Carlyle Talk 83
Who thinks an inch, but talks a yard, needs a kick in the foot. Chinese Proverb Talk 82
No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted. Michel de Montaigne Talk 82
He is an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy, lofty things impressively, and moderate things temperately. Cicero Talk 79
Brisk talkers are usually slow thinkers. There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate. If you are civil to the voluble they will abuse your patience; if brusque, your character. Jonathan Swift Talk 73
The most valuable of talents is that of never using two words when one will do. Thomas Jefferson Talk 72
Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health. Robert Louis Stevenson Talk 68
A perfect conversation would run much less to brilliant sentences than to unfinished ones. Louis Kronenberger Talk 67
I think the first prerequisite to civilization is an ability to make polite conversation. W.H. Auden Talk 67
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about and that is not being talked about. Oscar Wilde Talk 60
A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying. G.K. Chesterton Talk 58
The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression. Samuel Johnson Talk 55
I talk to the universe all the time. Ted Lange Talk 53
Conversation: The slowest form of human communication. Don Herold Talk 52
Conversation is the image of the mind. As the man is, so is his talk. Publilius Syrus Talk 47
Those who have few affairs to attend to are great talkers. The less men think, the more they talk. Montesquieu Talk 46
Anybody at all has the right to talk about himself-provided he knows how to be entertaining. Charles Baudelaire Talk 42
Let your discourse with men of business always be short and comprehensive. George Washington Talk 39
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether. Thomas Carlyle Talk 37
I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits. John Locke Talk 35
Talkers will refrain from evil speaking when listeners refrain from evil hearing. Edward Bulwer-Lytton Talk 32

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