Guy de Maupassant Quotes

I like talking to people.

Conversation is a game of circles.

Conversation is a beautiful thing. When I was a younger guy, just wandering around talking to people was what kept me connected to the world.

It's a strange thing, to be talked about instead of talked to.

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.

It pleases me that people can be interactive.

There's always something to talk about.

I strike up conversations all the time and it is very interesting, finding out about things I know nothing about.

There is nothing I hate more than meeting someone who has forgotten the art of conversing.

I actually like talking.

You're in a much better position to talk with people when they approach you than when you approach them.

Talking, it seemed to me, was the point of adult existence.

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

People talk to pass the time, share information, and entertain each other.

I like talking.

I don't think you really get to know a person until you talk to them.

I enjoy it. I don't run from it. I like talking to people.

In apartments and cottages, on the street and in the train... I listen... More and more, I turn into one large ear, always turning to another person.

Talk is free. You never know what's going to happen after you talk. There's always a perception about a guy until you actually sit down and talk with him.

What happens when two people talk? That is really the basic question here, because, that's the basic context in which all persuasion takes place.

'O Tiger-lily,' said Alice... 'I wish you could talk!' 'We can talk,' said the Tiger-lily: 'when there's anybody worth talking to."

conversation is like a dear little baby that is brought in to be handed round. You must rock it, nurse it, keep it on the move if you want it to keep smiling.

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.

It doesn't matter as long as there's interaction between me and the audience. That's why they come.

In the end, you can' t talk to everyone.