Converse

Famous quotes containing the word converse:

“The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The first deals in poetry, the last in cant. He is as much a visionary on one side, as the extreme theoretical democrat is a visionary on the other.”
—James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851)

“Who can converse with a dumb show?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Lately in converse with a New York alec
About the new school of the pseudo-phallic ...”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)