Michel de Montaigne Quotes

And not to serve for a table-talk.

In dinner talk it is perhaps allowable to fling any faggot rather than let the fire go out.

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.

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.

How often, when we have been nearest each other bodily, have we really been farthest off! Our tongues were the witty foils with which we fenced each other off.

Society was nothing but a long, dull dinner party conversation in which one was forced to speak to one's partner on both the left and the right.

Tis not the food, but the content, That makes the table's merriment.

I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them.

Table talk and Lovers' talk equally elude the grasp; Lovers' talk is clouds, table talk is smoke.

The table is the only place where we do not get weary during the first hour.

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.

I suppose the difference between baby people and me is that I do not consider smiling while farting 'holding up your end of a conversation.

small talk comes from small bones

And before you barrel through some idiotic Cosmo girl list of how-well-do-you-know-your-man questions, let me say that I don't know squat about him except that he kisses like a god and screws like a devil.

There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting.

The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.

That's why I like the scenes where we're just in the kitchen having breakfast, because it's the interaction between people. The chaos.

Foxy girls know that silence may be golden-but only for four seconds. Anything longer and you're heading for Awkward Avenue.

That which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner-party, is the running short--not of meat, nor yet of drink, but of conversation.

[Jules] slides into a seat beside me with her hot lunch tray, sighing. “Four hours, thirty-six minutes, and twelve seconds till we’re out of purgatory for the weekend.” “Maybe later,” I murmur, still distracted by the day’s previous events. “So, let me show you how a conversation works. I say something, and then you say something back that actually relates to what I was talking about, as if you were even the least bit interested.” “Huh?” I say.

Wine makes all sorts of creatures at table.

A good thing to do when one is sitting, eating, and resting is to have a conversation.

A civil guest Will no more talk all, than eat all the feast.

I've given guys blow jobs just because I've run out of things to talk about.' Oh, Rae. Who hasn't