
Top 26 Loquacity Quotes
#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
#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
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