Who said “I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.”?

“The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.”

“There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.”

“Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.”

“We do not talk -- we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.”

“No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.”

“Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life.”

“I know that's a secret, for it's whispered everywhere.”

“Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study.”

“Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds.”

“If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.”

“They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.”