Meaningless Dialogue Quotes

People who have nothing to say are never at a loss in talking.

Conversation, which is friendship's mode of expression, is a superficial digression which gives us nothing worth acquiring. We may talk for a lifetime without doing more than indefinitely repeat the vacuity of a minute.

Conversationis like the table of contents of a dull book.... All the greatest subjects of human thought are proudly displayedin it. Listen to it for three minutes, and you ask yourself which is more striking, the emphasis of the speaker or his shocking ignorance.

We [journalists] have a tendency to go on talking even when we have nothing to say.

They talked about nothing in particular, sentences that had meaning only in the sound of the voices, in warm gaiety, in the ease of complete relaxation.

A lot of people talk, but they don't say anything. And people listen, and they don't absorb anything of substance.

Interviews, when they are just simply an exercise in hearing what you want to hear, are of no interest.

…and you smile back and try not to think about the fact that you have nothing, absolutely nothing, to say to each other.

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.