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Your Quotes for 19 November 2005 - Conversation

What a combination! In the birthday list for today we have Jeane Kirkpatrick, US ambassador to the United Nations in the Nixon years, born at Duncan, Oklahoma in 1926. In 1933 we have Larry King, the radio and television talk show host, born at Brooklyn, New York, and in 1936 we have Dick Cavett (Gibbon, Nebraska). Well, talk was our obvious theme, and I've narrowed that down to Conversation.

Conversation, n. A fair for the display of the minor mental commodities, each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own wares to observe those of his neighbor.
     - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1881 - 1906

Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations.
     - Deborah Tannen

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, 1826 - 1913

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness.
     - Margaret Millar

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

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
     - George Bernard Shaw, 1856 - 1950

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