| Author |
Quotes |
| Bible | Whose talk is of bullocks. |
| Colley Cibber | Persuasion tips his tongue whene'er he talks. |
| Douglas Jerrold | Talk to him of Jacob's ladder, and he would ask the number of the steps. |
| Goldoni | He who talks much cannot always talk well. |
| James Merrick | Oft has it been my lot to mark A proud, conceited, talking spark. |
| Matthew Prior | They never taste who always drink; They always talk who never think. |
| Nathaniel Lee | Then he will talk-good gods, how he will talk! |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr | Stop not, unthinking, every friend you meet To spin your wordy fabric in the street; While you are emptying your colloquial pack, The fiend Lumbago jumps upon his back. |
| Rudyard Kipling | And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth; Four things greater than all things are-- Women and Horses and Power and War. |
| Homer | No season now for calm, familiar talk. |
| James Russell Lowell | In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it. |
| John Gay
| My tongue within my lips I rein, For who talks much must talk in vain. |
| John Dryden | But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much. |
| Samuel Butler | But still his tongue ran on, the less Of weight it bore, with greater ease. |
| Samuel Butler | With vollies of eternal babble. |
| William Shakespeare | I prithee take the cork out of thy mouth, that I may drink thy tidings. |
| William Shakespeare | What cracker is this same that deafs our ears With this abundance of superfluous breath? |
| William Shakespeare | If I chance to talk a little wild, forgive me, I had it from my father. |
| William Shakespeare | The red wine first must rise In their fair cheeks, my lord, then we shall have 'em Talk us to silence. |
| William Shakespeare | No, pray thee, let it serve for table-talk, Then howsome'er thou speak'st, 'mong other things I shall digest it. |
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