Top 66 Not Talkative Quotes
#1. Those social networks, there's something sad about them. Is it because they don't have enough knowledge about friends and people? I don't understand it. It's like a talkative mirror where people talk to themselves. And what I hate most in life is selfies.
Karl Lagerfeld
#2. I grow grandiose, which is a good sign I should become prosaic.
Isaac Asimov
#3. One solitary God-centered, God-intoxicated man can do more to keep God's love alive and His presence felt in the world than a thousand half-hearted, talkative busy men living frightened, fragmented lives of quiet desperation.
Robert McNamara
#4. Where are my guards? (Wulf)
Oh, one is right here, but he's not feeling very talkative. Death has a way of making even the chattiest of people rather quite. As for the other ... he's ... oh, wait, dead now. (Stryker)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#5. Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#6. My scripts are possibly too talkative. Sometimes I watch a scene I've written, and occasionally I think, 'Oh, for God's sake, shut up.'
Tom Stoppard
#7. She wasn't like a jukebox; you never had to put in a dime and she never came unplugged.
Stephen King
#8. Trains induce such terrible anxiety. They image the possibility of total and irrevocable failure. They are also dirty, rackety, packed with strangers, an object lesson in the foul contingency of life: the talkative fellow-traveller, the possibility of children.
Iris Murdoch
#9. The relatives didn't feel slighted - they had a limited interest in people like Roy who had just married into the family, and not even contributed any children to it, and who were not like themselves. They were large, expansive, talkative. He was short, compact, quiet.
Alice Munro
#11. They criticize the silent ones. They criticize the talkative ones. They criticize the moderate ones. There is no one in the world who escapes criticism.
Nhat Hanh
#12. Human nature is, by definition, a talkative one, imprudent, indiscreet, gossipy, incapable of closing its mouth and keeping it closed.
Jose Saramago
#13. Mother was a talkative person, and I was a lot like her.
Charley Pride
#14. Why are some people talkative while others measure their words? Why
Susan Cain
#15. I'm just a shy and retreating kind of person. Sometimes I get in a real talkative mood - but not very often.
Brian Wilson
#16. Irish ex-priests don't succumb to drunkenness, we just become more talkative on whiskey,
Matthew Quick
#18. A talkative person runs himself upon great inconvenience by blabbing out his own and others' secrets.
John Ray
#19. The chief drawback with men is that they are too talkative.
Marilyn Monroe
#21. You could have told me you were a total badass. I imagine him shrugging. Yeah, I know. You're not the talkative type.
Anonymous
#23. Philosophy finds talkativeness a disease very difficult and hard to cure. For its remedy, conversation, requires hearers: but talkative people hear nobody, for they are ever prating. And the first evil this inability to keep silence produces is an inability to listen.
Plutarch
#24. In this age of media and Internet access, we are much more talkative than ever before.
David Duchovny
#25. But always, it has been truly said, the savage is talkative about his mythology and taciturn about his religion.
G.K. Chesterton
#26. The talkative listen to no one, for they are ever speaking. And the first evil that attends those who know not to be silent is that they hear nothing.
Plutarch
#27. I think most serious and omnivorous readers are alike- intense in their dedication to the word, quiet-minded, but relieved and eagerly talkative when they meet other readers and kindred spirits.
Paul Theroux
#28. I live in Ireland near the sea, only one mile from where I grew up - that's good, since I've known many of my neighbours for between 50-60 years. Gordon and I play chess every day, and we are both equally bad. We play chatty, over-talkative bad bridge with friends every week.
Maeve Binchy
#29. In my circle of friends, I've always been loud and funny and talkative. But as soon as I step out of that circle, I get very quiet and introspective. I don't want the spotlight on me.
Rosie Perez
#30. As people, my parents,were very colorful, very talkative, passionate, they really loved each other. But that also meant heated, it meant there was a lot of drama in the house. Which is good for a filmmaker, I think.
David O. Russell
#33. Today Mrs. Beasley began by clearing her throat. Again, this isn't a worrisome sign. Librarians are not overly talkative so our throats can get froggy from lack of use.
Lynn Austin
#34. The bothersome noise of religious talk grows irksome when laid upon the living score of discordant behavior. Talkative's
John Bunyan
#35. That must be why we get along so fabulously," Amaranthe said. "You being the less talkative sort and me being happy to fill in the awkward silences with ... awkward un-silences." Sicarius said nothing. "Yes, just like that.
Lindsay Buroker
#36. I'm not the most talkative guy in the world.
Skeet Ulrich
#37. Seek me not in your richness, O dear, search not amidst the words talkative. Find me in the moments of loneliness, in the silence of your mighty soul. Within the void of intimate being this is me, the majestic blue - the cessation of all; and here your are in the celestial path.
Preeth Nambiar
#38. Maybe it was the home tutoring, or the late start to formal schooling, or an overly cautious and protective upbringing, but in any case, I never became a talkative person. As an adult, I am not always comfortable in social gatherings with small talk. I must have inherited my father's gentle nature.
Charles K. Kao
#39. My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.
Kahlil Gibran
#40. He wasn't a talkative man to begin with, and in all aspects of life - as though it were a kind of mouth infection he wanted to avoid catching - he never talked about his feelings.
Haruki Murakami
#41. When women are supposed to be quiet, a talkative woman is a woman who talks at all.
Dale Spender
#42. MARGARET HAD SEEN ASH cheerfully powerful, as talkative as a jaybird. She'd seen him silently powerful while he was listening to those around her. She didn't like seeing him vulnerable. It made her feel odd inside - hotly angry on his behalf, and enraged that someone had made him feel that way.
Courtney Milan
#43. The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw
#44. Who said that?" asked Sir Grummore.
"But the sword said it, like I tell you."
"Talkative weapon," remarked Sir Grummore skeptically.
T.H. White
#45. I'd always heard stories about how Harpo Marx was the most talkative of the Marx brothers. I found it interesting that someone you never got to hear speak in films would never not speak in real life.
Harmony Korine
#47. A woman's pity, which is talkative, carries the sick person's bed to the public marketplace.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#48. To put it kindly, I am a very talkative, social person. To put it less kindly, I'm a flibbertigibbet, which is what my frenemy Rainn Wilson calls me.
Mindy Kaling
#49. Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply mean that and that the same genes that make parents talkative make children articulate.
Steven Pinker
#50. I was very chatty and talkative and always getting sent out of class for talking too much and not paying attention, passing notes.
Lucy Punch
#51. An introvert talks more than an extrovert because when the mouth is closed, the mind is opened.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#52. The real in us is silent; the acquired is talkative.
Kahlil Gibran
#53. The only benefit a woman can have in talking too much is defeating a man who troubles her too much.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#54. I don't think I'd be a very good talk show host. I mean, I'm very talkative but I don't know if I could do that all the time.
Emma Roberts
#55. The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart.
Joseph Joubert
#56. Of a disposition at once unsociable and talkative, desiring to see no one, yet wishing to converse with some one, he got out of the difficulty by talking to himself.
Victor Hugo
#57. Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.
Saskya Pandita
#58. I'm a talkative person because I like to get to know a person and I like you to get to know me.
LisaRaye McCoy-Misick
#59. Vanity is a relative of Pride; Vanity is talkative, pride is silent. When Vanity and Pride get together, they could make monstrosities.
Samael Aun Weor
#60. Not every person that speaks less than you do is more ignorant than you are.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#61. I wouldn't just come home from school and watch TV everyday, they had me involved in lots of local theatre. I was a very dramatic, talkative child. And that was part of my mother's creative solution - to put me in workshops and classes and children's theatre programmes.
Kerry Washington
#62. Neither man was talkative and each was grateful to the other for not being talkative. That is why from time to time they talked.
Saki
#63. Criticize me if you can, but that won't stop me from saying what i like, my mouth is mine, and not yours.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#65. If Miss Elton spoke water instead of words, then there would have been a repetition of Noah's flood.
Kellyn Roth
#66. Matthew, much to his own surprise, was enjoying himself. Like most quiet folks he liked talkative people when they were willing to do the talking themselves and did not expect him to keep up his end of it.
L.M. Montgomery
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