Quotes about talking
319 quotes from 193 people
The finest eloquence is that which gets things done; the worst is that which delays them.
David Lloyd George1863–1945Speech at the Paris Peace Conference (January 1919)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882The Courtship of Miles Standish (1858), Pt. III, The Lover’s Errand.
Audre Lorde1934–1992The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action, p. 41A man only curses because he doesn’t know the words to express what is on his mind.
I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.
Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann1875–1955The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 6Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
W. Somerset Maugham1874–1965“1896”, p. 17She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit…
W. Somerset Maugham1874–1965“The Creative Impulse”, in Six Stories Written in the First Person Singular (1931)Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure.
W. Somerset Maugham1874–1965The Trembling of a Leaf (1921), ch. 3
Terence McKenna1946–2000“Alien Dreamtime” a multimedia event recorded live. (27 February 1993)
