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The tongue is the instrument of the greatest good and the greatest evil that is done in the world. - Sir Walter Raleigh (1) A talkative person runs himself upon great inconvenience by blabbing out his own and others' secrets. - John Ray (Wray) Consider, I'm a peer of the realm, and I shall die if I don't talk. - Frederic Reynolds Long talking begets short hearing, for people go away. - Jean Paul Friedrich Richter (Johann Paul Richter) (used ps. Jean Paul) Length of saying makes languor of hearing. - Joseph Roux Alas for the folly of the loquacious! - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) They who are great talkers in company have never been any talkers by themselves, nor used to private discussions of our home regimen. - Lord Shaftesbury, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury (Anthony Ashley Cooper) Fie, fie, how frantically I square my talk! - William Shakespeare He gives the bastinado with his tongue; Our ears are cudgell'd; not a word of his, But buffets better than a fist of France: Zounds! I was never so bethump'd with words, Since I first called my brother's father, dad. - William Shakespeare I prythee, take the cork out of thy mouth that I may drink thy tidings. - William Shakespeare Men of few words are the best men. - William Shakespeare Things are often spoke and seldom meant. - William Shakespeare Think you a little din can daunt mine ears? Have I not in my time heard lions roar? * * * Have I not heard great ordnance in the field, and heaven's artillery thunder in the skies? * * * And do you tell me of a woman's tongue, that gives not half so great a blow to hear as will a chestnut in a farmer's fire? - William Shakespeare What a spendthrift he is of his tongue! - William Shakespeare Why, what a wasp-tongued and impatient fool Art thou, to break into this woman's mood; Tying thine ear to no tongue but thine own! - William Shakespeare A gentleman, nurse, that loves to hear himself talk and will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month. - William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (Romeo at II, iv) People who have nothing to say are never at a loss in talking. - Henry Wheeler Shaw (used pseudonyms Josh Billings and Uncle Esek) A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in. - Richard Brinsley Sheridan The vanity of shining in conversation is usually subversive of its own desires. - Lydia Huntley Sigourney It is not of so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. - Alexander Smith There is the same difference between their tongues as between the hour and the minute-hand; one goes ten times as fast, and the other signifies ten times as much. - Sydney Smith In great families, some one false, paltry, tale-bearer, by carrying stories from one to another, shall inflame the minds and discompose the quiet of the whole family. - Bishop Robert South This great author (Horace), who had the nicest taste of conversation, and was himself a most agreeable companion, had so strong an antipathy to a great talker, that he was afraid, some time or other, it would be mortal to him. - Sir Richard Steele A good talker, even more than a good orator, implies a good audience. - Sir Leslie Stephen There is such a torture, happily unknown to ancient tyranny, as talking a man to death. Marcus Aurelius advises to assent readily to great talkers--in hopes, I suppose, to put an end to the argument. - Laurence Sterne Displaying page 4 of 5 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 [4] 5
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