Talking Quotes

I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.

To talk, simply to talk! It sounds so little, and how much it is! When you have existed to the brink of middle age in bitter loneliness, among people to whom your true opinion on every subject on earth is blasphemy, the need to talk is the greatest of all needs.

People talk too much. Humans aren’t descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.

It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open.

I want to learn how to talk to people without wishing I could retract every word I said.

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.[Il y a beaucoup de bouches qui parlent et fort peu de têtes qui pensent.]

The more they talk, the less they’ll do.

The more they talk the more lecherous they get.

The idle tittle-tattle is very wrong and unkind, but it is so often true.

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order, so they’ll have good voice boxes in case there’s ever anything really meaningful to say.

Most people don’t know how to appreciate silence. They can’t help talking.