Conversation is the art of telling people a little less than they want to know.

People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.

The best guide to conversation is to ask questions.

The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.

The secret of success in conversation is to be able to disagree without being disagreeable.

The flowering moments of the mind Drop half their petals in our speech.

Good-nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.

Too much agreement kills a chat.

True conversation is an interpenetration of worlds, a genuine intercourse of souls, which doesn't have to be self-consciously profound but does have to touch matters of concern to the soul.

The necessity of saying something, the embarrassment produced by the consciousness of having nothing to say, and the desire to exhibit ability, are three things sufficient to render even a great man ridiculous.