Quotes about talking
319 quotes from 193 people
Donald Trumpborn 1946December 2015, 30 December 2015 speech in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina reported by Gawker and The Daily Caller
Winston Churchill1874–1965Remarks at a White House luncheon (26 June 1954)
William Hazlitt1778–1830Lectures on the English Comic Writers (1819)
Voltaire1694–1778“Sixième discours: sur la nature de l’homme”, Sept Discours en Vers sur l’Homme (1738)
Frantz Fanon1925–1961Black Skin, White Masks (1952), pp. 38
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Letters and Social Aims (1876), Quotation and OriginalityQuestioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784Life of Johnson (Boswell) (1776)The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882English Traits (1856), RaceWords are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
Rudyard Kipling1865–1936Speech, quoted in The Times (February 15, 1923).Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an impostor.
ECEmil Cioran1911–1995A Short History of Decay (1949)And silence, like a poultice, comes
To heal the blows of sound.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894“To an Insect”, Poems (1836)It is Ill-manners to silence a Fool, and Cruelty to let him go on.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax1633–1695Moral Thoughts and ReflectionsNext to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Letters and Social Aims (1876), Quotation and Originality
