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  • One often reads about the art of conversation-how it's dying or what's needed to make it flourish, or how rare good ones are. But wouldn't you agree that the infinitely more valuable rara avis [rare bird] is a good listener.

    Art   Agreement   Bird  
  • Silence is one great art of conversation. He is not a fool who knows when to hold his tongue; and a person may gain credit for sense, eloquence, wit, who merely says nothing to lessen the opinion which others have of these qualities in themselves.

    Art   Silence   Quality  
    William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1472, Delphi Classics
  • The art of conversation, or the qualification for a good companion, is a certain self-control, which now holds the subject, now lets it go, with a respect for the emergencies of the moment.

    Art   Self   Let It Go  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1912). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”
  • The real amateur of wine can only enjoy it along with friends, sharing with them the art of conversation and the art of drinking. Wine is indeed essentially a sign of civilization, a factor of sociability, friendship.

    Art   Real   Drinking  
  • The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably.

  • Real-life discussions involve a great many bores and boors who have never learned that the art of conversation demands listening as well as talking.

    Art   Real   Women  
  • That silence is one of the great arts of conversation is allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an art, but even an eloquence in it

    Art   Women   Silence  
    Hannah More (1835). “The Works of Hannah More”, p.345
  • Silence is one great art of conversation.

    William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1472, Delphi Classics
  • The art of conversation lies in listening.

  • To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.

  • The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a motley garb.

    Art   Stubborn   Matter  
    Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The works of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield: embracing novels, romances, plays, poems, biography, short stories and great speeches”
  • Among the arts of conversation no one pleases more than mutual deference or civility, which leads us to resign our own inclinations to those of our companions, and to curb and conceal that presumption and arrogance so natural to the human mind.

    Art   Arrogance   Mind  
    David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.651, Delphi Classics
  • When you're at dinner with somebody and they are on their phone. I think there's that lost art of conversation and so I just always try to keep my phone far away from me when I'm with people.

    Art   Thinking   Phones  
    Source: www.justjared.com
  • The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.

    Art   Attention   Hearing  
    William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.2779, Delphi Classics
  • The Art of Conversation could not die in Australia; it never lived. Television did not kill it; there was nothing there to kill.

    Funny   Art   Humor  
  • Hosting is an art form. Like acting, singing, or comedy hosting is a craft. It's a delicate dance of timing, the ability to read the room, and the art of conversation.

    Art   Singing   Acting  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.

    Art   Oil   Conversation  
    FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Sep 05, 2014
  • All who say the same things do not possess them in the same manner; and hence the incomparable author of the Art of Conversation pauses with so much care to make it understood that we must not judge of the capacity of a man by the excellence of a happy remark that we heard him make. Let us penetrate, says he, the mind from which it proceeds. It will oftenest be seen that he will be made to disavow it on the spot, and will be drawn very far from this better thought in which he does not believe, to plunge himself into another, quite base and ridiculous.

    Art   Believe   Men  
    "The Art of Persuasion". Book by Blaise Pascal, translated by O. W. Wright, www.bartleby.com. 2001.
  • I happen to disagree with the well-entrenched theory that the art of conversation is merely the art of being a good listener. Such advice invites people to be cynical with one another and full of fake; when a conversation becomes a monologue, poked along with tiny cattle-prod questions, it isn't a conversation any more.

    Art   Women   People  
  • Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

    Positive   Art   Silence  
  • To say the right thing at the right time, keep still most of the time.

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