Edith Wharton - Conversation Quotes

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With Mrs. Fairford conversation seemed to be a concert and not a solo. She kept drawing in the others, giving each a turn, beating time for them with her smile, and somehow harmonizing and linking together what they said.

Edith Wharton

Miss Bart had the gift of following an undercurrent of thought while she appeared to be sailing on the surface of conversation.

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Miss Corby's rôle was jocularity: she always entered the conversation with a handspring.

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She wanted to get away from herself, and conversation was the only means of escape that she knew.

Edith Wharton

Ah, good conversation—there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

Edith Wharton

She took up the thread of her mild chat and carried it on at the same pace as her knitting. Her conversation resembled the large loose-stranded web between her fingers: now and then she dropped a stitch, and went on regardless of the gap in the pattern.

Edith Wharton