Yes, there is a talkability that can express itself even without words. There is an exchange of thought and feeling which is happy alike in speech and in silence. It is quietness pervaded with friendship.
Henry van Dyke
Where these words come from
- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Fisherman’s Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things, “Talkability,” III: Variations—On a Pleasant Phrase; Three complete consecutive sentences at the end of the discussion of friendship in conversation. Surrounding context read; author’s commentary, distinct from explicitly quoted Montaigne passages. P
- Fisherman’s Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things, “Talkability,” III: Variations—On a Pleasant Phrase
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