Shallow Conversation Quotes

Half-wits talk much, but say little.

I'm so used to talk-show hosts just giving you a sound bite and not really being interested.

While you're playing cards with a regular guy or having a bite to eat with him, he seems a peaceable, good-humoured and not entirely dense person. But just begin a conversation with him about something inedible, politics or science, for instance, and he ends up in a deadend or starts in on such an obtuse and base philosophy that you can only wave your hand and leave.

You can't have a nuanced debate on Twitter, it's just people shouting.

Everyone striving to be witty and sought-after, everyone talking and no one listening.

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

You don't want to become one of those Hollywood idiots who is just blathering about anything.

Society is frivolous, and shreds its day into scraps, its conversation into ceremonies and escapes.

One likes to hear what is to be going on, to be au fair with the newest modes of being trifling and silly.

Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.

When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip.