| 25 Talk Quotes
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“It would talk;
Lord, how it talked!”
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Quotes Source: The Scornful Lady (act IV, sc. 1)
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“Whose talk is of bullocks.”
Bible Quotes Source: Ecclesiasticus (ch. XXXVIII, v. 25)
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“But still his tongue ran on, the less
Of weight it bore, with greater ease.”
Samuel Butler (1) Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. III, canto II, l. 443)
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“With vollies of eternal babble.”
Samuel Butler (1) Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. III, canto II, l. 453)
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“"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 Rev. Charles L. Dodgson) Quotes Source: Through the Looking Glass (ch. IV)
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“Persuasion tips his tongue whene'er he talks.”
Colley Cibber Quotes Source: Parody of Pope's lines
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“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 Quotes Source: Conversation (l. 7)
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“But far more numerous was the herd of such,
Who think too little, and who talk too much.”
John Dryden Quotes Source: Absalom and Achitophel (pt. I, l. 533)
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“My tongue within my lips I rein:
For who talks much must talk in vain.”
John Gay Quotes Source: Introduction to the Fables (pt. I, l. 57)
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“He who talks much cannot always talk well.
[It., Chi parla troppo non puo parlar sempre bene.]”
Goldoni Quotes Source: Pamela (I, 6)
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“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. Quotes Source: Urania--A Rhymed Lesson, l. 439
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“No season now for calm, familiar talk.”
Homer ("Smyrns of Chios") Quotes Source: The Iliad (bk. XXII, l. 169), (Pope's translation)
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“Talk to him of Jacob's ladder, and he would ask the number of the
steps.”
Douglas Jerrold Quotes Source: A Matter-of-Fact Man
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“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 Quotes Source: Ballad of the King's Jest
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“Then he will talk--good gods, how he will talk!”
Nathaniel Lee Quotes Source: Alexander the Great (act I, sc. 1)
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“In general those who nothing have to say
Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it.”
James Russell Lowell Quotes Source: To Charles Eliot Norton
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“Oft has it been my lot to mark
A proud, conceited, talking spark.”
James Merrick Quotes Source: The Chameleon
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“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 Quotes Source: The Vicar
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“They never taste who always drink;
They always talk who never think.”
Matthew Prior Quotes Source: Upon a Passage in the Scaligerana
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“I prithee take the cork out of thy mouth, that I may drink thy
tidings.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: As You Like It (Rosalind at III, ii)
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“What cracker is this same that deafs our ears
With this abundance of superfluous breath?”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: The Life and Death of King John (Austria at II, i)
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“If I chance to talk a little wild, forgive me;
I had it from my father.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Sandys at I, iv)
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“The red wine first must rise
In their fair cheeks, my lord; then we shall have 'em
Talk us to silence.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Sandys at I, iv)
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“No, pray thee, let it serve for table-talk;
Then howsome'er thou speak'st, 'mong other things
I shall digest it.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: The Merchant of Venice (Lorenzo at III, v)
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“Talk with a man out at a window!--a proper saying!”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Much Ado About Nothing (Beatrice at IV, i)
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