Helen Gurley Brown Quotes

If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.

Listening to people keeps them entertained.

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness.

I'll talk. You'll listen.

How time files when you's doin' all the talking.

It's no secret that I love to talk, but the real secret is I love to listen, too.

People don't listen, they just wait for their turn to talk.

I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk.

I do do a lot of talking, because it saves me listening.

Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

It's a dialogue, not a monologue, and some people don't understand that. Social media is more like a telephone than a television.

Everyone wants to talk, you've just got to find a way to get them to talk.

I'm kind of looking for something with a lot less action and more talking and listening.

There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.

Always do something that requires you and your date to talk.

The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.

Certainly I'm always willing to talk to anyone who's interested in talking to me!

I suppose I don't hear things, but I listen, if you know what I mean. And there is a big difference between hearing and listening. So it's like a conversation, you know. When you speak to someone, it's one on one, and that's exactly how I play.

I am conversational - I just like to engage and talk about things.

Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.

Talking to people is not giving them anything.

A good talker, even more than a good orator, implies a good audience. Modern society is too vast and too restless to give a conversationalist a fair chance.

I like talking.