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The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard. -- William Hazlitt
The art of conversation lies in listening -- Malcolm Forbes
Silence is one great art of conversation. -- William Hazlitt
The art of conversation lies in listening. -- Malcolm Forbes
She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech. -- George Bernard Shaw
The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably. -- Hayley Atwell
A key to the art of conversation is learning how to be an effective and active listener. -- Cindy Ann Peterson
To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten. -- Chinua Achebe
The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a motley garb. -- Benjamin Disraeli
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. -- Susan Jacoby
Asking anyone what she or he is reading is a necessary part of conversation, exchanging news. So I take recommendations from friends - and I always pass along a book I've loved. -- Marianne Wiggins
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. -- Jean Drapeau
As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction. -- Stan Getz
I like the idea of multidisciplinary conversations, so in that spirit, I try and make a contribution from the art world into the music world. -- Fred Tomaselli
When I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of commanding attention, and giving the tone to the conversation. -- Adelbert von Chamisso
Our experience of any painting is always the latest line in a long conversation we've been having with painting. There's no way of looking at art as though you hadn't seen art before. -- Brian Eno
I think the point of art is to be controversial in a lot of ways. It's to cause conversations, and it's to get people excited about and talking about the things that the films are about. -- Eloise Mumford
It's fun having songs about parties and gigolos, but I really wanted to use my music as a form of art. Art is supposed to spark conversation and make people think, and I wanted to do that with this song. -- Nick Cannon
I had a conversation with a biologist in an art gallery, and he persuaded me that it was possible to grow a dress from microbes. It was the craziest thing I had ever heard, but I'm a bit of a science fiction fan and I thought it sounded like an interesting challenge. -- Suzanne Lee
One culture I find fascinating to juxtapose against American culture is the culture of Germany. They've gone through a long process through their art, poetry, public discourse, their politics, of owning the fact of their complicity in what happened in World War II. It's still a topic of everyday conversation in Germany. -- Chris Jordan
conversation is now pretty well a lost art. -- Dorothy Nevill
There is no God, and conversation is a dying art. -- Raymond Carver
Art is supposed to spark conversation and make people think -- Nick Cannon
Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one. -- George Santayana
That amenity which the French have developed into a great art . . . conversation. -- Cornelia Otis Skinner
Plenty of guys are good at sex, but conversation, now there's an art. -- Linda Barnes
People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were. -- Edward R. Murrow
As a work of art, it reminds me of a long conversation between two drunks -- Clive James
Everything is inspiring! It could be fine art or a conversation I have with somebody! -- Hiromi
Artists are always good for conversation, so long as you want to talk about their art. -- Craig Johnson
Other than conversation, no other art form can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction like Jazz. -- Stan Getz
Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords-philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather. -- Anna Brownell Jameson
Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords-philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather. -- Anna Brownell Jameson
Tea beckons us to enjoy quality time with friends and loved ones, and especially to rediscover the art of relaxed conversation. -- Dorothea Johnson
Conversation is the fine art of mutual consideration and communication about matters of common interest that basically have some human importance. -- Ordway Tead
The Art of Conversation could not die in Australia; it never lived. Television did not kill it; there was nothing there to kill. -- George Mikes
Without leisure there can be neither art nor science nor fine conversation, nor any ceremonious performance of the offices of love and friendship. -- Lewis Mumford
Surely only boring people went in for conversations consisting of questions and answers. The art of true conversation consisted in the play of minds. -- Ved Mehta
I think art, if it's meaningful at all, is a conversation with other artists. You say something, they say something, you move back and forth. -- John Baldessari
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 -- Hannah More
Dance removes you from this construct of the world that you have, and it's a conversation that you're having with people. That's how dance grew, as an art form. -- Stephen Boss
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. -- Guy de Maupassant

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