Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
—William Shakespeare
Showing posts with label conversation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label conversation. Show all posts
Friday, December 22, 2017
Monday, February 06, 2017
Post #2266
The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
—Sir William Temple
—Sir William Temple
Wednesday, January 20, 2016
Post #1993
In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest; for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
—Joseph Addison
Friday, November 13, 2015
Post #1945
In conversation, humor is more than wit, easiness more than knowledge ; few desire to learn, or think they need it; all desire to be pleased, or, if not, to be easy.
—Sir William Temple
—Sir William Temple
Wednesday, August 26, 2015
Post #1888
Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
—William Shakespeare
—William Shakespeare
Monday, June 15, 2015
Post #1836
I would establish but one general rule to be observed in all conversation, which is this, "that men should not talk to please themselves but those that hear them."
—Sir Richard Steele
—Sir Richard Steele
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.
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