Conversation Topics Quotes

#1. We struck up a conversation, but took pains to keep to small talk at first. We touched on the most trivial of topics: I asked if he thought the fate of man was unalterable. He thought it was.

Gunter Grass

#2. I like people who can keep the conversation going no matter how random the topic gets.

Turcois Ominek

#3. Polite conversation followed rules. Topics were sequential, orderly, and flowed from one to the next like a gentle current when all those conversing were skilled.

Kresley Cole

#4. Sometimes history cleaves and for one helpless moment stands still like the pause when the ax splits a log and the two halves rest on end waiting to fall.

Barbara Kingsolver

#5. There will be but few people who, when at a loss for topics of conversation, will not reveal the more secret affairs of their friends.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#6. Rather I receive your bullet riddled body with honor that us of your cowardliness on the battlefield.

Malala Yousafzai

#7. Topics of conversation among the multitude are generally persons, sometimes things, scarcely ever principles.

William Benton Clulow

#8. Simplicity is the beauty of life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. English tradition debars from dinner-table conversation almost all topics that might interest the conversers and insists upon strict adherence to banalities.

Elspeth Huxley

#10. Tough topics are only tough for those who don't want to approach conversation, who don't like problematizing the status quo and nuancing the narrative.

Monica O Montgomery

#11. Their conversation topics are very rarely the things they want to be talking about, and I could write ninety-seven books on body shame and clothing etiquette before you would get even close to understanding them.

Matt Haig

#12. The topics which language limits us to aren't much worth discussing in the first place.
(attrib: F.L. Vanderson)

Mort W. Lumsden

#13. What Donald Trump is going to bring to the table. He's going to bring straight, honest conversation and bring up topics that, while they may be sensitive, they have to be said.

Donald Trump Jr.

#14. Being daily better informed about their knowledge than my adversaries themselves, I argued till finally one day they applied the one means that wins the easiest victory over reason: terror and force.

Adolf Hitler

#15. speak to young men about the weather, meals, clothing, and their relatives. Avoid conversation concerning politics, finance, or religion. Though a gentleman may bring up such topics, and a lady must follow where a gentleman leads, a skilled lady will return the conversation to an appropriate topic.

Laila Ibrahim

#16. We entered a vast, bottomless silence. I scrambled for better conversation topics. This all would have been far less stressful in the movie version of our lives. The long silences would have been edited out.

Catherine Lowell

#17. The supposed unhappiness of the rich is always a cheerful topic of conversation.

Mason Cooley

#18. One hopes that each piece contains enough space for several narratives.

Kiki Smith

#19. Reading has always been in the chief joy, a never-ending topic of conversation, and often a lifesaver, in my family.

Elizabeth Borton De Trevino

#20. Playing half court or even organising a practise game against another team is a great way to train. It ensures a tough session and is often the best way to learn what works and what doesn't

Catherine Cox

#21. Cukor is one of my favorite directors. He was a master at directing women.

Pedro Almodovar

#22. I'm calling for dialogue. I'm gathering attention for dialogue which is what you do in a struggle for power.

Tupac Shakur

#23. His unfiltered conversation topics reminded me of my female sailor status: More than a hooker, less than a woman. I was a brick wall he could chuck rocks at all day and not feel a thing. But they hurt. God, they hurt.

Maggie Young

#24. We wouldn't have much need of a war if people stopped using drugs. It's like taking up a fight against the use of headache remedies; it will never work until the condition causing people's headache pain is healed.

Chris Prentiss

#25. I feel like every job teaches us something.

Doreen Virtue

#26. Every man has some favorite topic of conversation, on which, by a feigned seriousness of attention, he may be drawn to expatiate without end.

Samuel Johnson

#27. And I won't take a cut of it. It's all yours.

Sarah J. Maas

#28. Bore : A fellow who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours.

Laurence J. Peter