Empty Words Quotes

Language and words for psychopaths are only word deep; there is no emotional colouring behind it. A psychopath can use a word like, 'I love you' but it means nothing more to him than if he said, 'I'll have a cup of coffee.'

They talk most who have the least to say.

We know that he has, more than any other man, the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thought.

Politicians like to tell people what they want to hear - and what they want to hear is what won't happen.

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

I might talk about killing people, but that doesn't mean I do it.

Talk is cheap. Allegations come easily.

Learning consists of ideas, and not of the noise that is made by the mouth.

POLONIUS: What do you read, my lord? HAMLET: Words, words, words.

It was not the man's brain that was speaking; it was his larynx.

Have you heard anything useful come out of an actor's mouth lately?

Conversation, which is friendship's mode of expression, is a superficial digression which gives us nothing worth acquiring. We may talk for a lifetime without doing more than indefinitely repeat the vacuity of a minute.

Like a fine flower, beautiful to look at but without scent, fine words are fruitless in a man who does not act in accordance with them.

Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.

I'm constantly around people that talk a lot but say nothing. A sad case.

Love is an orchid which thrives principally on hot air.

Half-wits talk much, but say little.

One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say.

I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious.

I saw him turn his charm on and off, like water from the tap at the kitchen sink. He said nothing of substance. He seemed to me essentially an actor.

Faith is only a word, embroidered.

I am tired of talk that comes to nothing.

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.

'Brave' is one of those words that has been bleached of most of its meaning these days, thanks to far too many appearances in the glaring light of ad slogans and corporate public relations. I never thought about anything as brave anymore; it just seemed like a flabby, glib cliche.