Conversation is the slowest form of human communication.
Unknown, Author

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness.
Millar, Margaret

I love America because America trusts me. When I go into a shop to buy a pair of shoes I am not asked to produce my Identity Card. I love it because my mail is not censored. My phone is not tapped. My conversation with friends is not reported to the secret police.
Atkins, Janina

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.
Cioran, Emile M.

People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
Beecher, Henry Ward

To those with ears to hear, libraries are really very noisy places. On their shelves we hear the captured voices of the centuries-old conversation that makes up our civilization.
Healy, Timothy

How many may a man of diffusive conversation count among his acquaintances, whose lives have been signalized by numberless escapes; who never cross the river but in a storm, or take a journey into the country without more adventures than befel the knights-errant of ancient times in pathless forests or enchanted castles! How many must he know, to whom portents and prodigies are of daily occurrence; and for whom nature is hourly working wonders invisible to every other eye, only to supply them with subjects of conversation?
Johnson, Samuel

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
Shaw, George Bernard

Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
Author, Unknown