Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

I would imagine that the more time you spend talking to another person, the more you're going to lie to them. So if you spend a lot of time with your relations, you're probably lying a lot to them.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

I think every guy that's dated a girl or hasn't been straightaway into a relationship has had that 'so...' moment where a girl is like, 'Hey what are you doing?'

Whatever distrust we may have of the sincerity of those who converse with us, we always believe they will tell us more truth than they do to others.

Once a human being has arrived on this earth, communication is the largest single factor determining what kinds of relationships he makes with others and what happens to him in the world about him.

I feel very open with people, and I'm good at disarming them and having conversations.

During sex, my girlfriend always wants to talk to me… Just the other night she called me from a hotel.

In my life there have been several individuals whose presence made it easier for me to think, pleasanter to make my responses.

Talk is a pure art. Its only limits are the patience of listeners who, when they get tired, can always pay for their coffee or change it with a friendly waiter and walk out.

Sometimes I think the human animal doesn't really need food or water to survive, only gossip.

I need to call Matt and let him know I'm okay," I said. Finn held the passenger door open while I got inside. As soon as he got in the driver's seat, I turned to him. "Well? Can I call him?" "You really want to?" Finn asked as he started the car. "Yes, of course I do! Why is that so suprising?

It's much more important to be interested than to be interesting.

I tried to think of something to say. Excuse me? Hello? Marry me? Anything would have done.

I'm not going to stop talking to people who come up to me in an airport. I'm not going to worry about what may be their ulterior motive.

Let's clear one thing up: Introverts do not hate small talk because we dislike people. We hate small talk because we hate the barrier it creates between people.

You can get far in North America with laconic grunts. "Huh," "hun," and "hi!" in their various modulations, together with "sure," "guess so," "that so?" and "nuts!" will meet almost any contingency.

gossip is just the small change of conversation.

People love to talk, so let them have fun talking, I think they have an interesting, wonderful connection, so you knowWhat does dating mean? I don't know. I couldn't say. People love to talk, so let them have fun talking.

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.

My wife gets so jealous. She came home from work and was mad at me because there was a pretty girl on the bus she thought I would have liked.

We were created to look at one another, weren't we?

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.

real letter-writing ... is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.

The first great real intimacy between two people begins when secrets are told.