Talkativeness Quotes

Philosophy finds talkativeness a disease very difficult and hard to cure. For its remedy, conversation, requires hearers: but talkative people hear nobody, for they are ever prating. And the first evil this inability to keep silence produces is an inability to listen.

They talk most who have the least to say.

People who have nothing to say are never at a loss in talking.

… too much of a talker to be a deep thinker

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.

I'm just a shy and retreating kind of person. Sometimes I get in a real talkative mood - but not very often.

People do too much. They say too much.

You remind me of Hubert Humphrey. You talk too much

My wife is one of the most extroverted people I know. She could out-talk Oprah and Joyce Meyer simultaneously.

I've always been very wordy; I've got a great vocabulary.

People [in politics] do go on and talk.

I think people talk too much anyway. Sometimes people are talking to me and in my mind I'm just like “shut up, shut up, shut upblah blah blah blah blaaaaah.

You know you haven't stopped talking since I came here? You must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle!

I was a chatty kid.

Who talks much, must talk in vain.

If your heart was as big as your mouth you'd be real.

There is quite a large clan of Scotties among American beggars. He is a good beggar for the simple reason that he is a good talker. Almost every Scotch beggar I met in the States of America was inclined to be talkative, and yet they all managed to conceal their private affairs.

I'm a very open person. I know I open my mouth way too much, but I just do that.

When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.

I do get bottled up in interviews. You're thinking about what you're saying, and suddenly you get all tangled. So people think I'm sullen, or that I don't have much to say. But my friends will tell you: a lot of times I talk too much.

Writers talk too much.

Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.

I talk too much.

I discovered that seventeen-year-old girls have such huge verbal energy that their brain drives them to expend it every twenty seconds. On the third day I decided I had to find her a boyfriend -- if possible, a deaf one.

And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say.