A Quote by John Dryden

Repartee is the soul of conversation.

John Dryden

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Conversation Repartee Soul

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John Dryden
English - Poet
August 19, 1631 - May 12, 1700

Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.

Alan Brien

Silence is the unbearable repartee.

Alexander Theroux

This conversation with the audience has been going on since, what, '72, '73... Sometimes it's like a conversation after dinner with friends. You're in a restaurant, and you got there at 8 o'clock. Suddenly, you realize it's midnight. Where did the time go? You're enjoying the conversation. It's sort of a natural, organic conversation.

Steven Van Zandt

A talent for repartee is one that increases with practice.

John Lothrop Motley

Conversation as talent exists only in France. In other countries, conversation provides politeness, discussion, and friendship; in France, it is an art for which imagination and soul are certainly very welcome, but which can also provide its own secret remedies to compensate you for the absence of either or both, if you so desire.

Madame de Stael

the soul of conversation is sympathy

Thomas Campbell

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Benjamin Disraeli

Repartee is altogether a natural endowment, and is the lightning of the mind.

Alfred de Musset

There's a deeper conversation to be had on guns, and just because I happen to know where I fall into that conversation doesn't mean that I don't want to have that conversation.

Moshe Kasher

I love to engage in repartee with people who are stupider than I am.

Ann Coulter

It's important to be heroic, ambitious, productive, efficient, creative, and progressive, but these qualities don't necessarily nurture soul. The soul has different concerns, of equal value: downtime for reflection, conversation, and reverie; beauty that is captivating and pleasuring; relatedness to the environs and to people; and any animal’s rhythm of rest and activity.

Thomas Moore

Someone has said that conversation is sex for the soul.

Isabel Allende

I'm a constant idiot in conversation - I always seem to sound either smug or stupid. Writing plays was a way of winning the conversation by controlling the conversation.

Jack Thorne

Jesus went into the temple and boldly drove out those that bought and sold. And when all was cleared, there was nobody left but Jesus. Observe this, for it is the same with us: when he is alone he is able to speak in the temple of the soul. If anyone else is speaking in the temple of your soul, Jesus will keep still, as if he were not at home. And he is not at home wherever there are strange guests-guests with whom the soul holds conversation, guests who are seeking to bargain. If Jesus is to speak and be heard, the soul must be alone and quiet.