Francis Lockier Quotes

When it comes to knowing what to say, to charm, I always had it.

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

During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk.

It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.

Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.

A clever, imaginative, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.

If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny.

Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

Good talkers are only found in Paris.

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.

Minimum information given with maximum politeness.

Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.

Being polite, being respectful, having manners, and being a socialite - they're key life skills that people take for granted. Being able to communicate with all people on all levels is what's got me so far.

I don't know how to talk. Oh! talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.

I like being around people who are good conversationalists.

What shall I say? I must tread a fine line between glaciosity and friendlinosity. With just a hint of 'you don't know what you are missing, my fine-feathered friend.

if you have to say “no offense” to someone, you have already offended them.

Say less than the other fellow and listen more than you talk; for when a man's listening he isn't telling on himself and he's flattering the fellow who is.

The great charm of conversation consists less in the display of one's own wit and intelligence than in the power to draw forth the resources of others.

Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It's the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all.

And not to serve for a table-talk.

Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man.

My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day and time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.

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