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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.

Two people in a conversation amount to four people talking. The four are what one person says, what he really wanted to say, what his listener heard, and what he thought he heard.

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.

Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.

Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation.

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.