Mindless Chatter Quotes

The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.

Idiot wind, blowing every time you open your mouth.

You don't want to become one of those Hollywood idiots who is just blathering about anything.

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?

Words learn'd by rote a parrot may rehearse, But talking is not always to converse, Not more distinct from harmony divine The constant creaking of a country sign.

But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.

There are braying men in the world, as well as braying asses; for what is loud and senseless talking any other than away of braying?

Is it that they think it a duty to be continually talking,' pursued she: 'and so never pause to think, but fill up with aimless trifles and vain repetitions when subjects of real interest fail to present themselves? - or do they really take a pleasure in such discourse?' 'Very likely they do,' said I; 'their shallow minds can hold no great ideas, and their light heads are carried away by trivialities that would not move a better-furnished skull; - and their only alternative to such discourse is to plunge over head and ears into the slough of scandal - which is their chief delight.

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