Quotes about talking
319 quotes from 193 people
Plato429–349 BCDialogues, Phaedo
Tom Stoppard1937–2025Interview with Janet Watts in The Guardian (21 March 1973)Just as war is freedom’s cost, disagreement is freedom’s privilege.
Euripides481–407 BCHippolytus (428 BC), l. 612 (tr. Gilbert Murray, 1902)None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
CCCharles Caleb Colton1777–1832Lacon (1820), Volume 1, Vol. I; XLIf you don’t say anything, you won’t be called on to repeat it.
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
Aldous Huxley1894–1963Jesting Pilate (1926), Part IV: AmericaThose who are preoccupied with ‘making a statement’ usually don’t have any statements worth making.
He wrapped himself in quotations—as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
Rudyard Kipling1865–1936The Finest Story in the World (1893).Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.
