Once you begin to pay attention to the conversations you conduct, you will suddenly realize that Robinson's thesis somehow hits the point. We communicate things without mentioning them, we hide things from other people and if we do so skillfully, nobody notices. On the other hand, being the interlocutor and not the speaker, we understand what other people want to convey to us without really saying it. And if we do not get their intention right away, we search for the meaning because we cannot help but seek for the deeper meaning behind an utterance. This becomes even more interesting when you take into consideration what a huge part of your life you spend making conversation and listening to utterances of others.In one of his lectures - as part of ¿Logic and Conversation¿, a lecture series and a later published essay of the same title, given at Harvard University in 1967 - the English language philosopher Herbert Paul Grice, raised the question how human meaning communication works. How we are able to convey intended meanings when we do not speak them out loud explicitly and how we can be understood by our interlocutors if we act in the described way. Grice tried to come up with one theory to give the answers to all the questions raised above. He was convinced that ¿all acts of communicating meaning can be rendered by means of the same theory (Jaszczolt 2005, 209).This paper will deal with Grice's theory. Therefore, it is necessary to first have a closer look at it, especially at the cooperative principle and the conversational maxims established together with the principle. Afterwards the nature of the maxims will be discussed briefly before moving on to the problems that occur in connection with the cooperative principle and the question how language is really used in everyday life. Afterwards I will focus on the possibility of neglecting Grice's conversational maxims. In this part of the paper the impact neglecting the maxims has on conversation will be included as well as the issues of irony and imagery in conversation. To round the paper off, there will be an explanation why the maxims are important and manipulating them is as well. This should lead to the conclusion in which the answers worked out in the analysis will be reflected.The paper will be based on Grice's theory which he introduced in 1975 and secondary literature, mainly by Jacob L. Mey (22001), Daniel Vanderveken (1999), Douglas Robinson (2006) and Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt (2005).