Leigh Hunt Quotes

There's a lot of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.

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

Polite conversation is rarely either.

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

No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.

… talks too much.

Among well-bred people a mutual deference is affected, contempt for others is disguised; authority concealed; attention given to each in his turn; and an easy stream of conversation maintained without vehemence, without interruption, without eagerness for victory, and without any airs of superiority

I'm the kind of guy who likes to have a little friendly banter, even with someone I disagree with.

In the first 20 seconds of talking, your light is green: your listener is liking you as long as your statement is relevant to the conversation and, hopefully, in service of the other person. But unless you are an extremely gifted raconteur, people who talk for more than roughly half a minute at a time are boring and often perceived as too chatty.

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.

There is a way to disagree with someone, but it doesn't have to be threatening.

I just want to have folks be comfortable and just share and have a good conversation. To me, that's kind of a lost art.

Saying just the right thing after a considerable, awkward pause is far less effective than saying the wrong thing with perfect timing. I'm telling you.

Conversation is but carving! Give no more to every guest Than he's able to digest.

I am worried that the next generation will not be able to have a real conversation.

If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

Argument should be polite as well as logical.

Let people speak. Let people disagree. Communicate. Listen. Have high-respect, if not for your opponent, then for your own comportment and conduct as a good listener.

It is an impertinent and unreasonable fault in conversation for one man to take up all the discourse.

Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world.

I like when you can have a conversation with people and it's not just stock questions.

The pith of conversation does not consist in exhibiting your own superior knowledge on matters of small consequence, but in enlarging, improving and correcting the information you possess by the authority of others.

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.

Be careful, think about the effect of what you say. Your words should be constructive, bring people together, not pull them apart.

For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave; in bed, beauty before goodness.