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| Att säga vad man tänker är ett dyrt nöje. | Anatole France (1844-1924) |
| Besvärliga konversationer med bordsdamer kan man undvika genom att fråga ogifta kvinnor, hur många barn de har, och de gifta, varför de inte har några ännu. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| Den ideala konversationen måste vara ett utbyte av tankar, och inte, som många av dem som mest bekymrar sig om sina tillkortakommanden tror, en elegant uppvisning av snille eller vältalighet. | Emily Post (1872-1960) |
| Det enda som gör oss till människor, och som knyter oss samman, är ordet. | Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) |
| I stället för tänder har han ord sittande i munnen. Med dem tuggar han. De faller aldrig ur. | Elias Canetti (1905-1994) |
| Jag var glad att jag kunde svara omgående. Jag sade att jag inte visste det. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Konsten är inte att kunna förutsäga vädret. Konsten är att ha ett paraply när det regnar. | Hans Werthén (1919-) |
| Konversation berikar förståelse, men ensamhet är geniets skola. | Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) |
| Tråkig är den som bara vill prata när du vill att han ska lyssna. | Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) |
| Samtalens sande ånd består i at bygge videre på et andet menneskes iagttagelser, ikke i at tilsidesætte dem. | Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873) |
| For meget enighed slår en samtale ihjel. | Eldridge Cleaver (1935-) |
| Grunden til, at så få mennesker er behagelige at tale med, er, at enhver tænker mere på, hvad han selv vil sige, end på, hvad andre siger, og vi lytter aldrig, når vi er ivrige efter at sige noget. | François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) |
| Tavshed er en utålelig replik. | Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) |
| Stilhed kan defineres som en samtale med en englænder. | Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) |
| Samtale er oftere et forsøg på med fuldt overlæg at vige uden om og med fuldt overlæg at skabe forvirring end på at kommunikere. Vi er faktisk alle bedragere og løgnere. | James Jones (1969-) |
| Kvinder taler, fordi de vil tale, mens en mand derimod kun taler, når han tvinges til det af ydre omstændigheder -som for eksempel at han ikke kan finde nogen rene strømper. | Jean Kerr (1923-2003) |
| Under visse omstændigheder giver bandeord en befrielse som bønner ikke evner. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Der har aldrig været to meninger, så lidt som to hår eller to korn, der var ens. Deres mest universelle egenskab er forskelligheden. | Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) |
| Menneskers samtale er en blanding af beklagelser og bange anelser. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Hvorfor er fingrene formet som en pløk? For at man kan stikke dem i ørerne, når man hører uhøvisk tale. | Talmud (400-) |
| De fleste mennesker har en brændende lyst til at snakke om sig selv, og kun andres utilbøjelighed til at lytte holder dem tilbage. Tilbageholdenhed er en kunstig egenskab, som hos de fleste af os er udviklet som resultat af utallige afvisninger. | William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) |
| 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. | Dorothy Nevill |
| Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory | Emily Post (1872-1960) |
| If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating | Leigh Hunt (1784-1859) |
| Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses | Margaret Miller |
| Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed. | Robert C. Gallagher |
| A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet. | Truman Capote (1924-1984) |
| Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about | Agnes Repplier (1858-1950) |
| Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know | André Maurois (1885-1967) |
| Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather | Anna Jameson (1794-1860) |
| A single conversation across the table with a wise person is worth a month's study of books | Chinese Proverbs |
| Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius | Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) |
| It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then | Richard Armour (1906-1989) |
| New York is a city of conversations overheard, of people at the next restaurant table (micrometers away) checking your watch, of people reading the stories in your newspaper on the subway train. | William E. Geist |
| 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. | Dorothy Nevill |
| It was impossible to get a conversation going; everybody was talking too much. | Yogi Berra (1925-) |
| There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation. | James Nathan Miller |
| The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees. | Douglas Adams (1952-2001) |
| Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue. | Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) |
| Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation | Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) |
| I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| 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 | Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) |
| A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet. | Truman Capote (1924-1984) |
| The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it | Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873) |
| The secret of success in conversation is to be able to disagree without being disagreeable | Joseph Addison (1672-1719) |
| Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty | Joseph Addison (1672-1719) |
| Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know | André Maurois (1885-1967) |
| Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating | Leigh Hunt (1784-1859) |
| The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| Men are capable of talking hours on end over only one subject, women do it and don’t even require a subject. | Curt Goetz (1888-1960) |
| Polite conversation is rarely either. | Fran Lebowitz (1950-) |
| Men view discussion as the art of trying to keep their wives quiet, women see it as the art of preventing their husbands from ever speaking. | Fritz Eckhardt |
| The lower one speaks the closer a woman listens. | Marcel Achard (1899-1974) |
| Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read. | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| Conversation is the art of speaking without thinking. | Victor de Kowa (1904-) |
| Å samtale med en venn er i virkeligheten ingen ting annet enn å tenke høyt. | Joseph Addison (1672-1719) |
| Den kunst å samtale består av to ting: av kunsten å kunne tale og kunsten å kunne tie og høre. | Georg Brandes (1842-1927) |
| Når man blir anmodet om en samtale, er det ikke alltid meningen man skal blande seg inn i den. | Fritjof Brandt |
| Snakk med en mann om ham selv, og han vil lytte i timevis. | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |