Friendship Conversation Quotes

#1. Nothing- not a conversation, not a handshake or even a hug- establishes friendship so forcefully as eating together.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#2. Politics ... is the hottest, most dangerous subject in the land. It's not only a conversation-wrecker, it's a friendship-wrecker, a family-wrecker, a job-wrecker, a future-wrecker.

Barbara Walters

#3. I later realized that this is my view of passion: It is rooted in genuine friendship. Chemistry may be two strangers exchanging smoldering looks - but passion has to be able to survive at least a twenty-minute conversation!

Helen Simonson

#4. The real amateur of wine can only enjoy it along with friends, sharing with them the art of conversation and the art of drinking. Wine is indeed essentially a sign of civilization, a factor of sociability, friendship.

Jean Drapeau

#5. Horace Greeley's conversation inevitably becomes a speech.

Harold Holzer

#6. Plato worried that philosophical writing would take the place of living conversations for which, in philosophy, there is no substitute.

Rebecca Goldstein

#7. Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.

Edmund Burke

#8. Without leisure there can be neither art nor science nor fine conversation, nor any ceremonious performance of the offices of love and friendship.

Lewis Mumford

#9. I have found that life is alive and we are requested to have a friendship with it, to have a conversation with life and that conversation is restorative and healing and always nearby.

Mark Nepo

#10. A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.

Gloria Steinem

#11. As an introvert, you crave intimate moments and deep connections--and those usually aren't found in a crowd.

Jenn Granneman

#12. A delicacy of taste is favorable to love and friendship, by confining our choice to few people, and making us indifferent to the company and conversation of the greater part of men.

David Hume

#13. Friendship does not depend on conversation. Sometimes the most important communication is not mouth to ear, but heart to heart.

Dean Koontz

#14. Happiness is found in the simplest of things. Happiness is found in gratitude, in a kept promise, in a good conversation, in love, in friendship, in an achieved goal, in a fond memory; in all the simple magnificence of life.

Steve Maraboli

#15. Oh stupid, silly, awkward me;
Will I never, ever see?
People babble, speak, and talk;
All I can do is stand and gawk!

Margo T. Rose

#16. Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.

Oscar Wilde

#17. I know what things are good: friendship and work and conversation. These I shall have.

Rupert Brooke

#18. They spoke of small things at first, since it was best, when reattaching threads, to begin with the easiest knots.

Chris Cleave

#19. In most cases, it is more satisfying to get a friend's answering machine and leave a cheery, tangible trace of your sincere commitment to the friendship than it is to engage in actual conversation.

Amy Krouse Rosenthal

#20. The friendship of a dog is precious. It becomes even more so when one is so far removed from home ... I have a Scottie. In him I find consolation and diversion ... he is the "one person" to whom I can talk without the conversation coming back to war.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#21. Almost every man we meet requires some civility,
requires to be humored; he has some fame, some talent, some whim of religion orphilanthropy in his head that is not to be questioned, and which spoils all conversation with him. But a friend is a sane man who exercises not my ingenuity, but me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#22. The free conversation of a friend is what I would prefer to any environment.

David Hume

#23. The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite. The soul environs itself with friends, that it may enter into a grander self-acquaintance or solitude; and it goes alone for a season, that it may exalt its conversation or society.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#24. Sometimes I feel that what used to be once casual conversations between friends are now being substituted with forced conversations containing none of the warmth it possessed earlier. It's better to not have any conversation at all than have forced conversations.

Adhish Mazumder

#25. He never, even in the most casual conversation with friends, spoke a sentence which did not sound as if it was ready for the air.

David Halberstam

#26. Our friendship is made up of these brief frenzied exchanges, but the quality of our conversation, for all its feverish outpouring, is genuine.

Carol Shields

#27. The bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation

Oscar Wilde

#28. A strong friendship doesn't need daily conversation, doesn't always need togetherness, as long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends will never part.

Auliq Ice

#29. The very fact that a Frenchman was prepared, after tow minutes of conversation, to be so friendly towards anyone, especially one who had come from England, made me restless.

Tahir Shah

#30. It was a positive sign that the conversation took place, it's a sign of the depth of the friendship between Australia and Indonesia.

Tony Abbott

#31. Friendship is an obstetric art; it draws out our richest and deepest resources; it unfolds the wings of our dreams and hidden indeterminate thoughts; it serves as a check on our judgements, tries out our new ideas, keeps up our ardor, and inflames our enthusiasm.

Antonin Sertillanges

#32. The art of conversation lies in listening

Malcolm Forbes

#33. Coffee is a product favouring sociability, friendship, and conversation and it should always be consumed with someone else.

Ernesto Illy

#34. I'm an answer, Frankie. Maybe you're an answer for me, too? - Emerson

Liza M. Wiemer

#35. True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, in the enjoyment of one's self, and, in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Joseph Addison

#36. An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy.

Charles Williams

#37. I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation.

Anne Bronte

#38. Conversationally, we were Fred and Ginger
spin, slide, shuffle, bend.

Marisa De Los Santos

#39. It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance that knows what you know. I see so many of these new folks nowadays, that seem to have neither past nor future. Conversation's got to have some root in the past, or else you've got to explain every remark you make, an' it wears a person out.

Sarah Orne Jewett

#40. Whenever I saw her, I felt like I had been living in another country, doing moderately well in another language, and then she showed up speaking English and suddenly I could speak with all the complexity and nuance that I hadn't realized was gone. With Lucy I was a native speaker.

Ann Patchett

#41. Nothing is more limiting than a closed circle of acquaintanceship where every avenue of conversation has been explored and social exchanges are fixed in a known routine.

A.J. Cronin