Loquacity Quotes

#1. I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#2. Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. Dirk was, for one of the few times in a life of exuberantly prolific loquacity, wordless.

Douglas Adams

#4. The eloquence of one stimulates all the rest, some up to the speaking-point, and all others to a degree that makes them good receivers and conductors, and they avenge themselves for their enforced silence by increased loquacity on their return.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. We live in the age of mass loquacity.We are all writing it or at any rate talking it: the memoir, the apologia, the c.v., the cri de coeur.

Martin Amis

#6. Loquacity, n. A disorder which renders the sufferer unable to curb his tongue when you wish to talk.

Ambrose Bierce

#7. If there are two definitive features of ancient Greek civilization, they are loquacity and competition.

Aristotle.

#8. Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart.

Robert South

#9. Loquacity with tongue or pen is its own reward
or, punishment.

George Eliot

#10. One learns taciturnity best among people without it, and loquacity among the taciturn.

Jean Paul Richter

#11. His picturesque and filthy loquacity flowed like a troubled stream from a poisoned source.

Joseph Conrad

#12. The modesty and diffidence that the penniless, unemployed Standish had brought aboard were now no longer to be seen; and the assurance of a monthly income and a settled position had developed a displeasing and often didactic loquacity. He was also, of course, incompetent.

Patrick O'Brian

#13. A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

Henry Ward Beecher

#14. All is a-swarm with commentaries: of authors there is a dearth.

Michel De Montaigne

#15. Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.

George Eliot

#16. The married should not forget that to speak of love begets love.

Blaise Pascal

#17. The word 'religion' takes on a sinister cast when one examines its root, religare, meaning 'to bind,' which in turn means 'to hold, to make prisoner, to restrain.

Annie Laurie Gaylor

#18. Man is the plumeless genus of bipeds, birds are the plumed.

Plato

#19. You know you haven't stopped talking since I came here? You must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle.

Groucho Marx

#20. Why, Mrs. Piper has a good deal to say, chiefly in parentheses and without punctuation, but not much to tell.

Charles Dickens

#21. But far more numerous was the herd of such,
Who think too little, and who talk too much.

John Dryden

#22. Every day is a great day to give love, spread joy, and SPARKLE!

Sheri Fink

#23. [Science doesn't deal with facts; indeed] fact is an emotion-loaded word for which there is little place in scientific debate.

Hermann Bondi

#24. After one of the lectures in Philadelphia, a woman asked Chesterton what made women talk so much, to which he replied, briefly, 'God, Madam'.

Ian T. Ker

#25. Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

William S. Burroughs

#26. The pencil is mightier than the pen.

Robert M. Pirsig