Quotes
Quotes about Talk
Let it serve for table-talk. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 5.
It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.
The anointed don't like to talk about painful trade-offs. They like to talk about happy "solutions" that get rid of the whole problem- at least in their imagination.
Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
I'll let the racket do the talking.
There was endless action - not just football, but sailboats, tennis and other things: movement. There was endless talk - the ambassador at the head of the table laying out the prevailing wisdom, but everyone else weighing in with their opinions and taking part.
That's why I don't talk. Because I talk too much.
When I was a small boy growing up in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing and as we sat there in the warmth of a summer afternoon on a riverbank we talked about what we wanted to do when we grew up. I told him that I wanted to be a real major-league baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish.
You can talk to a fade but a hook won't listen.
In this spacious isle I think there is not one But he hath heard some talk of Hood and Little John, Of Tuck, the merry friar, which many a sermon made In praise of Robin Hood, his outlaws, and their trade.
In after-dinner talk, Across the walnuts and the wine.
I'll talk a word with this same learned Theban. What is your study?
Peter was dull; he was at first Dull;--Oh, so dull--so very dull! Whether he talked, wrote, or rehearsed-- Still with his dulness was he cursed-- Dull--beyond all conception--dull.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you.
It would talk; Lord, how it talked!
Whose talk is of bullocks.
Persuasion tips his tongue whene'er he talks.
Words learn'd by rote a parrot may rehearse, But talking is not always to converse, Not more distinct from harmony divine The constant creaking of a country sign.
But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
My tongue within my lips I rein: For who talks much must talk in vain.
He who talks much cannot always talk well. [It., Chi parla troppo non puo parlar sempre bene.]
No season now for calm, familiar talk.
Talk to him of Jacob's ladder, and he would ask the number of the steps.
And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth; Four things greater than all things are-- Women and Horses and Power and War.
