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We women talk too much, but even then we don't tell half what we know. - Nancy Astor It would talk; Lord, how it talked! - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Scornful Lady (act IV, sc. 1) Whose talk is of bullocks. - Bible, Ecclesiasticus (Apocrypha) (ch. XXXVIII, v. 25) But still his tongue ran on, the less Of weight it bore, with greater ease. - Samuel Butler (1), Hudibras (pt. III, canto II, l. 443) With vollies of eternal babble. - Samuel Butler (1), Hudibras (pt. III, canto II, l. 453) "The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things: Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax-- Of cabbages--and kings-- And why the sea is boiling hot-- And whether pigs have wings." - Lewis Carroll (pseudonym of Charles L. Dodgson), Through the Looking Glass (ch. IV) Persuasion tips his tongue whene'er he talks. - Colley Cibber, Parody of Pope's lines 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. - William Cowper, Conversation (l. 7) But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much. - John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel (pt. I, l. 533) You've got to find some way of saying it without saying it. - Duke Ellington My tongue within my lips I rein: For who talks much must talk in vain. - John Gay, Introduction to the Fables (pt. I, l. 57) He who talks much cannot always talk well. [It., Chi parla troppo non puo parlar sempre bene.] - Carlo Goldoni, Pamela (I, 6) 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. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Urania--A Rhymed Lesson, l. 439 No season now for calm, familiar talk. - Homer ("Smyrns of Chios"), The Iliad (bk. XXII, l. 169), (Pope's translation) Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time. - Edgar Watson Howe Talk to him of Jacob's ladder, and he would ask the number of the steps. - Douglas William Jerrold, A Matter-of-Fact Man All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome. - Ben Jonson 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. - Rudyard Kipling, Ballad of the King's Jest Then he will talk--good gods, how he will talk! - Nathaniel Lee, Alexander the Great (act I, sc. 1) In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it. - James Russell Lowell, To Charles Eliot Norton Oft has it been my lot to mark A proud, conceited, talking spark. - James Merrick, The Chameleon Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave. - Wilson Mizner His talk was like a stream which runs With rapid change from rock to roses; It slipped from politics to puns; It passed from Mahomet to Moses; Beginning with the laws that keep The planets in the radiant courses, And ending with some precept deep For dressing eels or shoeing horses. - Winthrop Mackworth Praed, The Vicar They never taste who always drink; They always talk who never think. - Matthew Prior, Upon a Passage in the Scaligerana I prithee take the cork out of thy mouth, that I may drink thy tidings. - William Shakespeare, As You Like It (Rosalind at III, ii) Displaying page 1 of 2 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2
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