Conversational Etiquette Quotes

Philosophy finds talkativeness a disease very difficult and hard to cure. For its remedy, conversation, requires hearers: but talkative people hear nobody, for they are ever prating. And the first evil this inability to keep silence produces is an inability to listen.

I don't particularly enjoy those types of interviews, because I have a great respect for Senator McCain, and I hate the idea that our conversation became just two people sort of talking over each other, at one point.

The art of conversation lies in listening.

Listening is as important as talking. If you're a good listener, people often compliment you for being a good conversationalist.

I think the first prerequisite to civilization is an ability to make polite conversation.

When you hear someone talking in a restaurant or overhear someone talking on the street, there are very different patterns of conversation than you would hear in a conventional movie.

The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.

Recent research has indicated that the average individual listens for only seventeen seconds before interrupting and interjecting his own ideas.

A dearth of words a woman need not fear; But 'tis a task indeed to learn to hear: In that the skill of conversation lies; That shows and makes you both polite and wise.