Empty Conversation Quotes

Many words are spoken when there’s nothing to say.

We have young men with shoes which light up when they walk and a brain that seems dead when they talk.

Chatter about art is almost always useless.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say.

A lot of people talk, but they don't say anything. And people listen, and they don't absorb anything of substance.

Granted I am a babbler, a harmless vexatious babbler, like all of us. But what is to be done if the direct and sole vocation of every intelligent man is babble, that is, the intentional pouring of water through a sieve?

The odd thing about this form of communication is you're more likely to talk about nothing than something. But I just want to say that all this nothing has meant more to me than so many... somethings. So, thanks.

They talked aimlessly back and forth, each speaking for the other.

I find it, as ever, very unprofitable to have much to do with men. It is sowing the wind, but not reaping even the whirlwind; onlyreaping an unprofitable calm and stagnation. Our conversation is a smooth, and civil, and never-ending speculation merely.

There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.

They never taste who always drink: They always talk, who never think.

It has been said in praise of some men, that they could take whole hours together upon anything; but it must be owned to the honor of the other sex that there are many among them who can talk whole hours together upon nothing. I have known a woman branch out into a long extempore dissertation on the edging of a petticoat, and chide her servant for breaking a china cup, in all the figures of rhetoric.