dinner-speaker

Updated: May 25, 2025

Responses to toasts at banquets may be somewhat longer than the individual speeches of a single person in general table-talk; but any dinner-speaker knows that even his response runs the risk of being spoiled if extended beyond a few minutes. There are never-failing topics of interest and untold material out of which to weave suitable dinner-talk, provided it is woven in the right way.

Mary Greer Conklin - Conversation: What to Say and How to Say it