Quotes
Quotes about Talk
A Frenchman must be always talking, whether he knows anything of the matter or not; an Englishman is content to say nothing when he has nothing to say.
Here lies Nolly Goldsmith, for shortness called Noll,
Who wrote like an angel, and talk'd like poor Poll.
Oft has it been my lot to mark
A proud, conceited, talking spark.
The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade,
For talking age and whispering lovers made.
Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound,
And news much older than their ale went round.
When they talk'd of their Raphaels, Correggios, and stuff,
He shifted his trumpet and only took snuff.
They would talk of nothing but high life, and high-lived company, with other fashionable topics, such as pictures, taste, Shakespeare, and the musical glasses.
I cannot talk with civet in the room,
A fine puss-gentleman that's all perfume.
It is very true that I have said that I considered Napoleon's presence in the field equal to forty thousand men in the balance. This is a very loose way of talking; but the idea is a very different one from that of his presence at a battle being equal to a reinforcement of forty thousand men.
Maidens withering on the stalk.
Peter was dull; he was at first
Dull,--oh so dull, so very dull!
Whether he talked, wrote, or rehearsed,
Still with this dulness was he cursed!
Dull,--beyond all conception, dull.
Those who compare the age in which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in imagination, may talk of degeneracy and decay; but no man who is correctly informed as to the past, will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present.
Talk to him of Jacob's ladder, and he would ask the number of the steps.
The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
Talk not of wasted affection! affection never was wasted;
If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters returning
Back to their springs, like the rain, shall fill them full of refreshment.
Here was a type of the true elder race,
And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face.
If you will observe, it does n't take
A man of giant mould to make
A giant shadow on the wall;
And he who in our daily sight
Seems but a figure mean and small,
Outlined in Fame's illusive light,
May stalk, a silhouette sublime,
Across the canvas of his time.
They sat and combed their beautiful hair,
Their long, bright tresses, one by one,
As they laughed and talked in the chamber there,
After the revel was done.
"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--
Of cabbages--and kings--
And why the sea is boiling hot--
And whether pigs have wings.
Only a little while now and we shall be again together and with us those other noble and well-beloved souls gone before. I am sure I shall meet you and them; that you and I shall talk of a thousand things and of that unforgettable day and of all that followed it; and that we shall clearly see that all were parts of an infinite plan which was wholly wise and good.
I have talked with Betsy, and Betsy has talked with me,
And so we've agreed together that we can't never agree.
Licker talks mighty loud w'en it gits loose from de jug.
Unthinking, idle, wild, and young,
I laugh'd and danc'd and talk'd and sung.
Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.
It is easy for men to talk one thing and think another.
