The easiest way to save face is to keep the lower half shut. – Author Unknown

Lucy put out her hand as if to ward his words away… – Florence Bone (1875–1971), The Morning of To‑Day, 1907

And there is monologue disguised as dialogue, in which two or more men, meeting in space, speak each with himself in strangely tortuous and circuitous ways and yet imagine they have escaped the torment of being thrown back on their own resources. – Martin Buber (1878—1965), translated from German

A dialogue is not made up of two monologues. – Howard E. Short, quoted in United Church Herald, Vol.10, 1967 [See also above qu