Chitchat Quotes

#1. It was a lie and I detected it at once. As an accomplished fibber myself, I spotted the telltale signs of an untruth before they were halfway out of his mouth: the excessive detail, the offhand delivery, and the wrapping-up of it all in casual chitchat.

Alan Bradley

#2. Cross the street to avoid making aimless chitchat with random acquaintances.

Susan Cain

#3. Miss Erstwhile: "It is such a relief, Mr. Nobley, to already know that you find this exercise vulgar and your partner unworthy. It saves us the idle chitchat."
Mr. Nobley: "And yet you chat away.

Shannon Hale

#4. I was the murderer of chitchat. My mouth was where small talk went to die.

A Meredith Walters

#5. On another she made chitchat with the cashier at the Coop. That was an absolute first. The checker offered a forced, availing smile in return.

Jill Alexander Essbaum

#6. [T]his is how it will remain until ... literary criticism discards its sociological, religious, philosophical and other textbooks, which only help mediocrity to admire itself. Only then will you be free to say what you please. [F]or God's sake stop that irrelevant chitchat.

Vladimir Nabokov

#7. Denton struck Charley as the kind of man who never wasted energy on extra movement or idle chitchat. He was foursquare Sonny Boy Williamson and Sister Rosetta Tharpe, a Silvertone guitar, older than old school.

Natalie Baszile

#8. It was through reading that I discovered the crucial, even sacrosanct place the rituals of drinking held in the American imagination - the ingenious way alcohol seemed to lubricate everything from onerous chitchat to self-conscious sexual advances.

Daphne Merkin

#9. Heads half-glued together, Abby and Lara had engaged in rapid-fire chitchat as they all hurried across campus.

Madeleine Roux

#10. Mr. Tiny nodded, then started forward. Enough of the chitchat, boys. I have work to do and I must be quick. Time is precious. A volcano's due to erupt on a small tropical island tomorrow. Everybody within a ten-mile radius will be roasted alive. I want to be there
it sounds like great fun.

Darren Shan

#11. You can spend your life chitchatting with someone - even a good friend - but spend even an hour moving over a rocky path, breathing in pine-scented air, and I guarantee you the chitchat will turn to something else.

Scott Jurek

#12. A reasonable being might think that he and I could find some common ground; have a cup of coffee and compare our Passengers, exchange trade talk and chitchat about dismemberment techniques. But no: Doakes wanted me dead. And I found it difficult to share his point of view.

Jeff Lindsay

#13. To my great surprise, Twitter is not housed in a silver pod that orbits Earth at supersonic speeds, vacuuming up and then dispersing digital bits of worldwide chitchat; it's in a big, bland office building in downtown San Francisco, near a bowling alley and an Old Navy.

Susan Orlean

#14. Introverts crave meaning, so party chitchat feels like sandpaper to our psyche.

Diane Cameron

#15. You always need something to complain about. And if you can't come up with anything better, you come along with team leaders. I don't believe in this chitchat.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

#16. Was that his name? I never had a chance to ask. He was too intent upon tearing out my throat for us to engage in idle chitchat.

John Connolly

#17. I can't chitchat and make breakfast at the same time. You could help, you know, instead of standing there like the Queen of England. Although you're a lot better-looking.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#18. I have a lot of celebrity friends. But they're all Hollywood friends. You can't call them if you fall over and break your leg, but if you're having a BBQ and wanna chitchat, you hang out with them, or you go to their house.

Rebel Wilson

#19. We're silent now, both waiting, till I remind myself that I'm the older one and should therefore initiate conversation. But I don't. I don't want to waste this girl with idle chitchat. She's beautiful.

Markus Zusak

#20. Killing people was far easier than making polite chitchat.

Jennifer Estep

#21. Quite frankly, I am not very comfortable in chitchat. When I go to board meetings, I arrive two minutes before and leave when it's over. I don't stay for lunch or go early and have coffee.

Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

#22. You are gonna get it now sweetheart," he grunted, seizing her nipples and massaging them roughly.
"Aw, what are you gonna do Max? Blow a load and get all sad about it afterwards?

Eve Dangerfield

#23. And the three of us are left out here in the emptiness of what used to be a home. This is the end of the things we used to consider good.

Sarah Negovetich

#24. Atheism, true 'existential' atheism burning with hatred of a seemingly unjust or unmerciful God, is a spiritual state; it is a real attempt to grapple with the true God. ... Nietzsche, in calling himself Antichrist, proved thereby his intense hunger for Christ.

Seraphim Rose

#25. People don't use their eyes. They never see a bird, they see a sparrow. They never see a tree, they see a birch. They see concepts.

Joyce Cary

#26. Everywhere I looked life seemed to be full of problems and they were just going to go on and on. It was never going to get any better.

Paul Gascoigne

#27. The moon was through to the sunset side of the gap, but its light was hardly noticeable on the earth for the ruddy brilliance of the firelight.

William Golding