Quotes
Quotes about Talk
The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie. - The Silence of the Sea.
The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.
He who talks much cannot talk well.
Every absurdity has a champion to defend it, for error is always talkative.
They always talk who never think, and who have the least to say.
True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.
Fear less, hope more, eat less, chew more, whine less, breathe more, talk less, say more, love more, and all good things will be yours. -Swedish Proverb.
Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners were left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You can't have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?
For talk six times with the same single lady, And you may get the wedding dress ready.
Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc jockey is not allowed to talk.
Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking.
A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.
They talk about a woman's sphere, as though it had a limit. There's not a place in earth or heaven. There's not a task to mankind given... without a woman in it.
They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men. -Clare Booth Luce.
All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
The mercy that was quick in us but late, By your own counsel is suppressed and killed. You must not dare for shame to talk of mercy; For your own reasons turn into your bosoms As dogs upon their masters, worrying you.
Berowne they call him; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal.
Is there not A tongue in every star that talks with man, And wooes him to be wise? nor wooes in vain; This dead of midnight is the noon of thought, And wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars.
Never get a mime talking. He won't stop.
I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly.
A civil guest will no more talk all, than eat all the feast.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
