The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man’s observation, not overturning it. Edward Bulwer-Lytton
He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful. Sydney Smith (on Thomas Babington Macaulay)
If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible. James McNeill Whistler
It was impossible to get a conversation going; everybody was talking too much. Yogi Berra
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 Bruyere
There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all. Rebecca West
There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike: information and wit. Stephen Leacock