Quotes about talking
319 quotes from 193 people
Did you ever notice how difficult it is to argue with someone who is not obsessed with being right?
Arguing is really saying, “If you were really more like me, then I could like you better.”
Chinua Achebe1930–2013Things Fall Apart (1958), Chapter 1We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Abigail Adams1744–1818Letter to John Adams (1774)
Douglas Adams1952–2001The Salmon of Doubt (2002)
Joseph Addison1672–1719The Tatler, No. 133 (14 February 1710)Like your body your mind also gets tired so refresh it by wise sayings.
AAli599–661Nahj al-Balagha- AAli599–661Nahj al-Balagha
Aristotle384–322 BCRhetoric, Book II, 1395b.27The purpose of aphorisms is to keep fools who have memorised them from having nothing to say.
Isaac Asimov1920–1992In Memory Yet Green (1979), p. 188
W. H. Auden1907–1973The Dyer’s Hand, and Other Essays (1962), “Reading”Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.
