{"topic":"conversation","quotes":[{"quote":"Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.","author":"Benjamin Disraeli"},{"quote":"Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.","author":"Bill Watterson"},{"quote":"Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know.","author":"Cullen Hightower"},{"quote":"Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations.","author":"Deborah Tannen"},{"quote":"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.","author":"Dorothy Nevill"},{"quote":"Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.","author":"Dr. Thomas Fuller"},{"quote":"Few are agreeable in conversation, because each thinks more of what he intends to say than of what others are saying, and listens no more when he himself has a chance to speak.","author":"Francois de La Rochefoucauld"},{"quote":"To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.","author":"Francois de La Rochefoucauld"},{"quote":"I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.","author":"George Bernard Shaw"},{"quote":"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.","author":"Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"},{"quote":"One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.","author":"Jonathan Swift"},{"quote":"Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.","author":"Judith Martin"},{"quote":"Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation.","author":"Kin Hubbard"},{"quote":"Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses.","author":"Margaret Millar"},{"quote":"The character of a man is known from his conversations.","author":"Menander"},{"quote":"Conversation is food for the soul.","author":"Mexican Proverb"},{"quote":"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.","author":"Plato"},{"quote":"Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.","author":"Ralph Waldo Emerson"},{"quote":"There isn�t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren�t really living without it.","author":"Real Live Preacher"},{"quote":"I don't know how to have casual conversation. You think you're talking about one thing, and either you are and it's incredibly boring, or you're not because it's subtext and you need a decoder ring.","author":"Sir Anthony Hawkins"},{"quote":"Your ignorance, cramps my conversation.","author":"Sydney Smith"},{"quote":"He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.","author":"Tom Blair"},{"quote":"Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, 'there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.' A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.","author":"W. Somerset Maugham"},{"quote":"It's always difficult to make conversation with a drunk, and there's no denying it, the sober are at a disadvantage with him.","author":"William Shakespeare"},{"quote":"Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood."}]}