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The real risk is doing nothing.

He who speaks too much is tiresome; he who speaks too little is boring.

Beware of the conversationalist who adds "in other words." He is merely starting afresh.

Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It's the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all. How do we define this lively darting about with words, of hitting them back.

The great gift of conversation is less about displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. Anyone who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is very well pleased with you.

And when you stick on conversation's burrs, don't strew your pathway with those dreadful ers.

Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.

It is all right to hold a conversation, but you should let go of it now and then.

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are interesting monologues, that's all.

You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different words. Conversation in a dorm room quoted in Language in Thought and Action,.