Talkativeness

(139 votes)   I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(133 votes)   To talk without thinking is to shoot without aiming.

English Proverbs
Sayings of British Origin

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(132 votes)   I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

Marcus T. Cicero
c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician

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(107 votes)   A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(104 votes)   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.

Soren Kierkegaard
1813-1855, Danish Philosopher, Writer

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(97 votes)   My great-grandfather used to say to his wife, my great-grandmother, who in turn told her daughter, my grandmother, who repeated it to her daughter, my mother, who used to remind her daughter, my own sister, that to talk well and eloquently was a very great art, but that an equally great one was to know the right moment to stop.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
1756-1791, Austrian Composer

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(92 votes)   What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(86 votes)   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.

Kenneth Grahame
1859-1932, British Writer

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(73 votes)   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.

Eric Hoffer
1902-1983, American Author, Philosopher

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