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“To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either.”
Jane Austen1775–1817Pride and Prejudice (1813), Volume I, Chapter XIn context
- Debate
I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.
Jane Austen1775–1817Northanger Abbey (1817), Chapter 16In context
- Comedy
Reading makes a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
Francis Bacon1561–1626Meditationes sacræ (1597), Of Studies
- Reading
- Writing
I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don’t even invite me.
Dave Barryborn 1947
- Debate
I have gathered a posie of other men’s flowers, and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own.
John Bartlett1820–1905
- Quotations
Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.
Samuel Beckett1906–1989The Unnamable (1954)
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. That remark in itself wouldn’t make any sense if quoted as it stands.
Robert Benchley1889–1945“Quick Quotations” in My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew (1936)
- Quotations
Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.
The Bible (King James Version)Ecclesiastes 5:2 (KJV)In context
- God
Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)
- Comedy
Confidant, Confidante, n. One entrusted by A with the secrets of B, confided by him to C.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)
- Comedy
Quotation, n. The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. The words erroneously repeated.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)
- Comedy
- Quotations
Heaven, n. A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound your own.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)
- Comedy
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Josh Billings1818–1885
- Debate
I don’t care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words.
Josh Billings1818–1885Affurisms. From Josh Billings: His Sayings (1865)
- Comedy
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
Niels Bohr1885–1962
- Thinking