Empty Speech Quotes

you had nothing to say about it and yet made the nothing up into words.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Those who have had anything useful to say have said it far too often, and those who have had nothing to say have been no more reticent.

Like a beautiful flower that is colorful but has no fragrance, even well spoken words bear no fruit in one who does not put them into practice.

One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say.

Words are the money of fools.

Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their cliches.

I must say I'm not very fond of oratory that's so full of energy it hasn't any room for facts.

So you have free speech, but you don’t have much to say.

Are we diminishing the bully pulpit to a pulpit of bull?

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

So, of course, Gish's presentation was well received, which it would have been the case had he only gotten up and said "praise the Lord" and sat back down.

Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.

The necessity of saying something, the embarrassment produced by the consciousness of having nothing to say, and the desire to exhibit ability, are three things sufficient to render even a great man ridiculous.

The whole art of a political speech is to put nothing into it. It is much more difficult than it sounds.

Demetrius was wont to say that there was no difference between the words and speech of the unskilled and ignorant and the sounds and rumblings caused by the stomach being full of superfluous wind. This he said, not without reason, for, as he held, it did not in the least matter from what part of them the voice emanated, whether from the lower parts or the mouth, since the one and the other were of equal worth and importance.

Phocion compared the speeches of Leosthenes to cypress-trees. "They are tall," said he, "and comely, but bear no fruit."

In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it.

Neil Kinnock's speeches go on for so long because he has nothing to say and so he has no way of knowing when he's finished saying it.

We [journalists] have a tendency to go on talking even when we have nothing to say.

Bureaucrats are the only people in the world who can say absolutely nothing and mean it.

In Washington, a man gets up to speak and doesn't say a thing, and the other men disagree with him for three hours.

The more time you spend talking about what you have been doing, the less time you have to do what you have been talking about. Eventually, you spend more and more time talking about less and less until finally you spend all of your time talking about nothing.

When language is used without true significance, it loses its purpose as a means of communication and becomes an end in itself.

I'm very garrulous, but I don't say anything.