Anne Louise Germaine de Staël - Conversation Quotes

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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.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël

There is no arena in which vanity displays itself under such a variety of forms as in conversation.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël

A voyage without companionship, that is to say without conversation, is one of the saddest pleasures of life.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël