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Whosoever hath his mind fraught with many thoughts, his wits and understanding do clarify and break up in the communicating and discoursing with another; he marshalleth his thoughts more orderly, he seeth how they look when they are turned into words.: Francis Bacon

When you find your antagonist beginning to grow warm, put an end to the dispute by some genteel badinage.: Lord Chesterfield

The advantage of conversation is such that, for want of company, a man had better talk to a post than let his thoughts lie smoking and smothering.: Jeremy Collier

Were we as eloquent as angels, yet should we please some men, some women, and some children much more by listening than by talking.: Charles Caleb Colton

We have fixed our view on those uses of conversation which are ministerial to intellectual culture.: Thomas De Quincey

There are certain garbs and modes of speaking which vary with the times; the fashion of our clothes being not more subject to alteration than that of our speech.: Sir John Denham

But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.: John Dryden

Struck in two instances, with the immense importance, to a man of sense, of obtaining a conversational predominance in order to be of any use in any company exceeding the smallest number.: John Foster

Conversation warms the mind, enlivens the imagination, and is continually starting fresh game that is immediately pursued and taken, and which would never have occurred in the duller intercourse of epistolary correspondence.: Benjamin Franklin

It has been said that the Table-Talk of Selden is worth all the Ana of the Continent. In this I should be disposed to concur; but they are not exactly works of the same class.: Henry Hallam

Talking and eloquence are not the same; to speak and to speak well, are two things.: Ben Jonson

To stated and public instruction he [Dr. Watts] added familiar visits and personal application, and was careful to improve the opportunities which conversation offered of diffusing and increasing the influence of religion.: Dr. Samuel Johnson

That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but only a calm, quiet interchange of sentiment.: Dr. Samuel Johnson

Amongst such as out of cunning hear all and talk little, be sure to talk less; or if you must talk, say little.: Jean La Bruyère

Before a man can speak on any subject it is necessary to be acquainted with it.: John Locke

He must be little skilled in the world who thinks that men’s talking much or little shall hold proportion only to their knowledge.: John Locke

With thee conversing I forget all time.: John Milton

From grammatic flats and shallows they are on the sudden transported to be tossed and turmoiled with their unballasted wits, in fathomless and unquiet depths of controversy.: John Milton

Macaulay wonderful: never perhaps was there combined so much talent with so marvellous a memory. To attempt to record his conversation, one must be as wonderfully gifted with memory as himself.: T. Moore

Be humble and gentle in your conversation, of few words, I charge you, but always pertinent when you speak, hearing out before you attempt to answer, and then speaking as if you would persuade, not impose.: William Penn

There is nothing so delightful as the hearing or the speaking of truth. For this reason there is no conversation so agreeable as that of the man of integrity, who hears without any intention to betray, and speaks without any intention to deceive.: Plato

The talkative listen to no one, for they are ever speaking. And the first evil that attends those who know not to be silent is, that they hear nothing.: Plutarch

It was not by an insolent usurpation that Coleridge persisted in monology through his whole life.: Thomas De Quincey

Consider, I’m a peer of the realm, and I shall die if I don’t talk.: Frederick Reynolds

The pith of conversation does not consist in exhibiting your own superior knowledge on matters of small importance, but in enlarging, improving, and correcting the information you possess, by the authority of others.: Sir Walter Scott

Talkers are no good doers.: William Shakespeare

I’ll talk a word with this same learned Theban:— What is your study?: William Shakespeare

If I chance to talk a little wild, forgive me; I had it from my father.: William Shakespeare

Be check’d for silence, But never tax’d for speech.: William Shakespeare

Inquisitive people are the funnels of conversation; they do not take in anything for their own use, but merely to pass it to another.: Sir Richard Steele

Old threadbare phrases will often make you go out of your way to find and apply them, and are nauseous to rational hearers.: Jonathan Swift

One can revive a languishing conversation by a sudden surprising sentence; another is more dexterous in seconding; a third can fill the gap with laughing.: Jonathan Swift

There is no point wherein I have so much laboured as that of improving and polishing all parts of conversation between persons of quality.: Jonathan Swift

The only invention of late years which hath contributed towards politeness in discourse is that of abbreviating, or reducing words of many syllables into one by lopping off the rest.: Jonathan Swift

Since the ladies have been left out of all meetings except parties of play, our conversation hath degenerated.: Jonathan Swift

Entertain no long discourse with any but, if you can, bring in something to season it with religion.: Jeremy Taylor

The great endearments of prudent and temperate speech.: Jeremy Taylor

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humour, and the fourth wit.: Sir William Temple

In conversation, humour is more than wit, easiness more than knowledge.: Sir William Temple

Across the walnuts and the wine.: Lord Alfred Tennyson

What we obtain by conversation is oftentimes lost again as soon as the company breaks up, or, at least, when the day vanishes.: Dr. Isaac Watts

What we obtain by conversation soon vanishes unless we note down what remarkables we have found.: Dr. Isaac Watts

Let useful observations be at least some part of the subject of your conversation.: Dr. Isaac Watts

Many a man thinks admirably well, who has a poor utterance; while others have a charming manner of speech, but their thoughts are trifling.: Dr. Isaac Watts

Conversation with foreigners enlarges our minds, and sets them free from many prejudices we are ready to imbibe concerning them.: Dr. Isaac Watts

Studious let me sit, And hold high converse with the mighty dead.: James Thomson

While we converse with her, we mark No want of day, nor think it dark.: Edmund Waller

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Authors by sayings about talk: Francis Bacon, Lord Chesterfield, Jeremy Collier, Charles Caleb Colton, Thomas De Quincey, Sir John Denham, John Dryden, John Foster, Benjamin Franklin, Henry Hallam, Ben Jonson, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Jean La Bruyère, John Locke, John Milton, T. Moore, William Penn, Plato, Plutarch, Thomas De Quincey, Frederick Reynolds, Sir Walter Scott, William Shakespeare, Sir Richard Steele, Jonathan Swift, Jeremy Taylor, Sir William Temple, Lord Alfred Tennyson, Dr. Isaac Watts, James Thomson, Edmund Waller.

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