the objctives of this research are: to know the usage of conversational principle and to identify the maxims of the principle which ar used in the conversations in the novel The careful use in compliments"rnthere are two basics causes why the speaker in conversation in the novel flout the conversational principles; the speakers or the characters in the novel flout the cooperative principle because they do not give contribution which are required by their interlocutor and flout the politeness principle because they are deliberately humiliate their hearer in conversation."