Quotes about talkativeness




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"The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds."

Bagehot, Walter on talkativeness    Share


"I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity."

Cicero, Marcus T. on talkativeness    Share

"No man ever listened himself out of a job."

Coolidge, Calvin on talkativeness    Share

"What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on talkativeness
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"Well, well, perhaps I am a bit of a talker. A popular fellow such as I am -- my friends get round me -- we chaff, we sparkle, we tell witty stories -- and somehow my tongue gets wagging. I have the gift of conversation. I've been told I ought to have a salon, whatever that may be."

Grahame, Kenneth on talkativeness    Share

"We never say so much as when we do not quite know what we want to say. We need few words when we have something to say, but all the words in all the dictionaries will not suffice when we have nothing to say and want desperately to say it."

Hoffer, Eric on talkativeness
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"How ironical that it is by means of speech that man can degrade himself below the level of dumb creation -- for a chatterbox is truly of a lower category than a dumb creature."

Kierkegaard, Søren on talkativeness
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"I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results."

Nightingale, Florence on talkativeness    Share

"They never taste who always drink; they always talk who never think."

Prior, Matthew on talkativeness    Share

"To talk without thinking is to shoot without aiming."

Proverb, English on talkativeness
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"The more you know the less you need to say."

Rohn, Jim on talkativeness
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"A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out."

Shakespeare, William on talkativeness    Share

"I don't mind how much my ministers talk -- as long as they do what I say."

Thatcher, Margaret on talkativeness    Share

"I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments."

Wilde, Oscar on talkativeness
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