W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

I like to talk to people and, obviously, to photograph them.

I'm not a good small talker. I'm not into small talk, frankly.

I don't know how to work a room. It's a real skill.

I'm not great at small talk.

I'm not good at meeting people, and I'm not good at small talk.

I just like to talk to people. I don't know how to bridge the gap between getting to know someone and then schmoozing and sort of working contacts and business connections.

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

It is possible to stand around with a cocktail in one's hand and talk with everyone, which means with no one.

I can't abide small talk.

I think because both of my parents were essentially salespeople, and Italian-Americans, I always seemed to get along with people; I had a knack of finding something to talk about.

For the most part, Americans speak of culture and politics as if they were two separate realms.

I'm not good at small talk. I'm really not. I'm not that great at any talk.

I'm not an ace at small talk.

In America, the first thing people say is, 'What do you do?'

I love talking to people and entertaining people.

I hate small talk! I can't do it.

Smaller incidents in my life made me realize that language, even more than color, defines who you are to people.

I like being around people who are good conversationalists.

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.

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

Charles looked at her thoughtfully. "People talk to you," he said. "That could be useful.

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.

Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous.

I'm ... incredibly open with my mates. Or even people I just meet.

No one tells the truth to people they don't actually know, and if they do it is a horrible trait. Everyone wants something smaller, something neater than the truth.