Quotes about talking
319 quotes from 193 people
The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900Bruce Bashford Oscar Wilde: The Critic as Humanist, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1999, p. 68.Some people use language to express thought, some to conceal thought, and others instead of thought.
Slang is the language which takes off its coat, spits on its hands—and goes to work.
Albert Einstein1879–1955Address to the Chicago Decalogue Society (20 February 1954)Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
Mark Twain1835–1910Letter to an Unidentified Person (1908)
Adlai Stevenson II1900–1965Introducing John F. Kennedy in 1960, as quoted in Adlai Stevenson and The World: The Life of Adlai E. Stevenson (1977) by John Bartlow Martin, p. 549Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
Charles de Gaulle1890–1970Le Fil de l’épée (1932)
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Date unclear
Ludwig Wittgenstein1889–1951Philosophical Occasions 1912-1951 (1993), Ch. 7: Remarks on Frazer’s Golden Bough, p. 133- Ludwig Wittgenstein1889–1951Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922), 7
There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
Socrates470–399 BCPhaedoA fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Joseph Roux1834–1905Meditations of a Parish Priest (1866), Part 1, LXXIV
