Quotes
Quotes about Talk
Then he will talk--good gods, how he will talk!
Oft has it been my lot to mark A proud, conceited, talking spark.
His talk was like a stream which runs With rapid change from rock to roses; It slipped from politics to puns; It passed from Mahomet to Moses; Beginning with the laws that keep The planets in the radiant courses, And ending with some precept deep For dressing eels or shoeing horses.
They never taste who always drink; They always talk who never think.
If I chance to talk a little wild, forgive me; I had it from my father.
The red wine first must rise In their fair cheeks, my lord; then we shall have 'em Talk us to silence.
No, pray thee, let it serve for table-talk; Then howsome'er thou speak'st, 'mong other things I shall digest it.
Talk with a man out at a window!--a proper saying!
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.
When you tell a story you automatically talk about traditions, but they're never separate from the people, the human implications. You're talking about your connections as a human being.
You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbour.
A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.
The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar.
The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it.
Ev'n wit's a burthen, when it talks too long.
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.
Another lean unwashed artificer Cuts off his tale and talks of Arthur's death.
When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up to something, that's news. If they aren't, that's news too.
