Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.

I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.

I'm one of those women who likes to chat and share knowledge and pass it around.

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.

What we've tried to do is have neighbors, colleagues, friends and family talking.

The thing that makes my generation The Greatest is our ability to hang out. We're spectacular at it. If you take somebody from my generation and sit them on a couch and bring them food and plumbing, they'll sit there and talk to you about anything you want until the day you die.

He loves people, but even more than that he loves to talk to people.

I love to meet people; it’s the only fun I have.

I like people. I like to speak to people, engage with people.

You've got to introduce people to things in a way they're going to enjoy.

My problem is that I love talking to people. I remember working in a call centre in Dalston and I'd end up having these long chats with old women.

The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.

Make your friends your teachers and mingle the pleasures of conversation with the advantages of instruction.

People can come and see me, and I have the pleasure of being able to talk to them.

Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure.

So long as a man remains a gregarious and sociable being, he cannot cut himself off from the gratification of the instinct of imparting what he is learning, of propagating through others the ideas and impressions seething in his own brain, without stunting and atrophying his moral nature and drying up the surest sources of his future intellectual replenishment.

It's the reaction I've gotten my whole life: that I learn something and try to tell people in conversation, but when I tell them, they are annoyed.

As you grow, you learn and talk about different things.

I still speak with David Silva. We have a personal relationship, and we talk about personal things, but we've not got into football that much.

I always felt it was necessary to keep up some kind of communication with other people.

A person with friends need never be bored. There is always more to fathom and enjoy in the complexity of others, and always the possibility of finding a way to delight them.

The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.

In my opinion, the most fruitful and natural play of the mind is conversation. I find it sweeter than any other action in life; and if I were forced to choose, I think I would rather lose my sight than my hearing and voice. The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.

Every human being is in need of talking to somebody. In this country nobody has time. It seems that talking to a friend has gone out of style. Now you have to pay money to go to an analyst.