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Loquacity Quotes
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Surely in much talk there cannot choose but be much vanity. Loquacity is the fistula of the mind,--ever-running and almost incurable, let every man, therefore, be a Phocion or Pythagorean, to speak briefly to the point or not at all; let him labor like them of Crete, to show more wit in his discourse than words, and not to pour out of his mouth a flood of the one, when he can hardly wring out of his brains a drop of the other. (Quote by - Herbert Spencer)
No fool can be silent at a feast. (Quote by - Solon)
Every absurdity has a champion to defend it, for error is always talkative. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk. (Quote by - Charles de Montesquieu)
Loquacity and lying are cousins. (Quote by - German Proverb)
He draweth out the thread of big verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Women speak at an earlier age, more easily, and more agreeably than men; they are accused also of speaking more; this is as it should be, and I willingly change the reproach into a eulogy. (Quote by - Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
Common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift )
You shall never take her without her answer, unless you take her without her tongue. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
I know a lady that loves to talk so incessantly, she won't give an echo fair play; she has that everlasting rotation of tongue that an echo must wait till she dies before it can catch her last words!(Quote by - William Congreve)
They always talk who never think, and who have the least to say. (Quote by - Matthew Prior)
Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in Venice: but his reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff; you seek all day ere you find them; and when you have them, they are not worth the search. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue. (Quote by - Jean de la Fontaine)
The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping. (Quote by - Socrates)