Quotes
Quotes about Talk
Talks as familiarly of roaring lions
As maids of thirteen do of puppy-dogs!
Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs.
Their lips were four red roses on a stalk.
True, I talk of dreams,
Which are the children of an idle brain,
Begot of nothing but vain fantasy.
A gentleman, nurse, that loves to hear himself talk, and will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.
The deep of night is crept upon our talk,
And nature must obey necessity.
I 'll talk a word with this same learned Theban.
A good old man, sir; he will be talking: as they say, When the age is in the wit is out.
A merrier man,
Within the limit of becoming mirth,
I never spent an hour's talk withal.
He doth nothing but talk of his horse.
I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following; but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you. What news on the Rialto?
Let it serve for table-talk.
Let those that merely talk and never think,
That live in the wild anarchy of drink.
[Quoting Seneca] Cornelia kept her in talk till her children came from school, "and these," said she, "are my jewels."
It would talk,--
Lord! how it talked!
She is pretty to walk with,
And witty to talk with,
And pleasant, too, to think on.
Who think too little, and who talk too much.
Then he will talk--good gods! how he will talk!
They never taste who always drink;
They always talk who never think.
Persuasion tips his tongue whene'er he talks,
And he has chambers in King's Bench walks.
I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly.
'T is greatly wise to talk with our past hours,
And ask them what report they bore to heaven.
Where Nature's end of language is declin'd,
And men talk only to conceal the mind.
No season now for calm familiar talk.
The good he scorn'd
Stalk'd off reluctant, like an ill-used ghost,
Not to return; or if it did, in visits
Like those of angels, short and far between.
