“Look in the face of the person to whom you are speaking if you wish to know his real sentiments, for he can command his words more easily than his countenance.” IfsKnowsLooksPersonsRealFacesWishConversationCommandSentimentsCountenanceService Culture Author:Bill Vaughan
“Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he wishes to hear, not only your conversation, but that of every other person in the room.” MenPersonsWishRoomsWorstHe ManListeningTerribleConversationEncountersListeners Book:all the year round Source: all the year round
“A woman well bred and well taught, furnished with the additional accomplishments of knowledge and behaviour, is a creature without comparison. Her society is the emblem of sublimer enjoyments, her person is angelic, and her conversation heavenly. She is all softness and sweetness, peace, love, wit, and delight. She is every way suitable to the sublimest wish, and the man that has such a one to his portion, has nothing to do but to rejoice in her, and be thankful.” MenWayWellsPersonsWishWomenTaughtHe ManConversationCreaturesDelightWitAccomplishmentEnjoymentComparisonHeavenlyRejoicePortionsBehaviourSweetnessBeing ThankfulSuitableSoftnessAngelicEmblemsPeace Love Book:An Essay Upon Projects Source: An Essay Upon Projects
“I do not wish to hide my origins, nor do I seek to make it a subject of conversation. I am what I am.” WishTalkingSubjectsConversationI Am What I Am Author:Ryan Giggs
“Drying up in conversation You will be the one who cannot talk All your insides fall to pieces You just sit there wishing you could still make love.” StillsFallWishPiecesConversationMaking Love Author:Thom Yorke
“The only reason why we wish to exchange thoughts is that we are different. If we were all the same, we would die dumb. No thought would be expressed after we found that our thoughts were precisely alike. We differ-our thoughts are different. Therefore the commerse that we call conversation.” IfsDifferentReasonWould BeDiesFoundWishConversationDumbReason WhyOpennessOur Thoughts Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“If I'm in a relationship, I'll go to the ends of the earth. If I'm on the road and we have a conversation, and she says, "God, I really wish I was there with you right now," I'll hang up the phone, send a car, and have the plane ready.” IfsEndsEarthWishCarReadyRight NowConversationPhonesPlanesHang Ups Author:Josh Groban
“It is a happy art to know when one has said enough. I would leave my hearers wishing me to say more rather than give them cause toshow, by their inattention, that I had said too much.” KnowsGivingArtSaidEnoughWishCausesToo MuchConversationInattention Author:Samuel Richardson
“Even a friendly conversation which cannot be at any given moment be broken off voluntarily with complete arbitrariness has something illiberal about it. An artist, however, who is able and wants to express himself completely, who keeps nothing to himself and would wish to say everything he knows, is very much to be pitied.” KnowsWantMomentsAbleArtistGivenWishBrokenConversationFriendly Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel