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Familiar Quotations

Colloquy – "Conference"

A conference is a gathering of people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.–Fred Allen

I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody a chance to get sore at everybody else. Sometimes it takes two or three conferences to scare up a war, but generally one will do it.–Will Rogers

Colloquy – "Conversation"

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place, but also to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.–Anonymous

You can judge a good listener by asking the talker at the end of the conversation what the listener's position is on the topic. If the talker doesn't know, then the listener has probably done a good job of listening.–Anonymous

The art of conversation consists as much of listening politely as in talking agreeably.–George Atwell

There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation! A human being, Hastings, cannot resist the opportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away.–Agatha Christie

I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man.–Edward Dahlberg

Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed.–Robert Gallagher

Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit places in conversation, and to recollect the latter on proper occasion.–Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You may fail to shine in the opinion of others both in your conversation and actions, from being superior as well as inferior to them.–Greville

• Preface iv
• Familiar Quotations 1
• Colloquy – "Conference" 1
• Colloquy – "Conversation" 1
• Use in Literature 3
• Colloquy 3
• Colloquy – "Brief" 10
• Colloquy – "Conversation" 11
• Colloquy – "End" 13
• Colloquy – "Heard" 13
• Colloquy – "Little" 14
• Colloquy – "Man" 14
• Colloquy – "Standing" 15
• Nonfiction Usage 17
• Bibliographic Usage 17
• Encyclopedic Usage 39
• Lexicographic Usage 41
• Index 48