Frank Moore Colby Quotes

Never ask a bore a question.

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

There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.

You can't just talk politics all the time - it's boring.

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

I never have anything to talk about.

A big part of the challenge is teaching your kids how to have a real conversation, not a texting conversation. If they're not sitting down at the table, the art of conversation is going to go.

It's the reaction I've gotten my whole life: that I learn something and try to tell people in conversation, but when I tell them, they are annoyed.

Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.

gossip is just the small change of conversation.

If people ask me, I always tell them: "Quite well, thank you, I'm very glad to say." If people ask me, I always answer, "Quite well, thank you, how are you today?" I always answer, I always tell them, If they ask me Politely... BUT SOMETIMES I wish That they wouldn't

If it were not for quotations, conversations between gentlemen would consist of an endless series of 'what-ho!'s.

The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.

Be politically correct, but please don't bother other people with conversation about being politically correct, because that's the end of everything. You want to create boredom? Be politically correct in your conversation.

And not to serve for a table-talk.

You don't want to be one of these guys talking all the time, trying to say things all the time, because people start drowning you out.

I always felt it was necessary to keep up some kind of communication with other people.

to my thinking, it is more pitiable to bore than to be bored.

I am often attracted to people with whom I could not hold a five minute conversation.

Life would be boring without gossip.

Conversation makes one what he is.

I have my own way of dividing people, as I suppose most of us have. There are those whom I can talk to, and those whom I can't.

Girl talk. That thing I've always been so bad at.

Conversation's got to have some root in the past, or else you've got to explain every remark you make, an' it wears a person out.

small talk comes from small bones