Top 19 Prating Quotes
#1. There are a set of malicious, prating, prudent gossips, both male and female, who murder characters to kill time; and will rob a young fellow of his good name before he has years to know the value of it.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
#2. Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.
Pearl S. Buck
#3. 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
#4. I adapted an O. Henry short story called 'By Courier,' which got nominated for a Best Short Subject Oscar.
Peter Riegert
#5. Sometimes, people meant it when they smiled. Other times, they smiled because they wanted to mean it.
Shannon A. Thompson
#6. A writer is not a prophet, is not a philosopher; he's just someone who is witness to what is around him. And so writing is a way to ... it's the best way to testify, to be a witness.
J.M.G. Le Clezio
#7. A prating barber asked Archelaus how he would be trimmed. He answered, In silence.
Plutarch
#8. Whenever you hear a man prating about the Constitution, spot him as a traitor
Andrew Johnson
#9. I'd like to get four people who do cart wheels very good, and make a cart.
Mitch Hedberg
#10. Across the room, Jason soared into the air and lopped the goddess's head off. Sadly, the head flew right back into place. "Unacceptable," Hygeia said calmly. "Decapitation is not a healthy lifestyle choice.
Rick Riordan
#11. How idle is this prating about natural rights as though still containing all that had been forfeited.
Jefferson Davis
#12. There can be no peace if the occupation continues.
Khaled Mashal
#13. Let's go. We have to confront her."
I scoff. "Confront her? That's a little mild, don't you think? I'm going to rip her tits off.
Sara Wolf
#14. The raven once in snowy plumes was drest,
White as the whitest dove's unsullied breast,
Fair as the guardian of the Capitol,
Soft as the swan; a large and lovely fowl
His tongue, his prating tongue had changed him quite
To sooty blackness from the purest white.
Ovid
#15. There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!
Charles Caleb Colton
#16. I don't want to dive into that mud slide, which is what I consider the literary process.
Joseph Brodsky
#17. According to the yoga tradition, fear is the source of disease, decay - physical harm, when we're not thriving. And then finally, it's even the cause of death.
Rod Stryker
#18. When we got home, she'd trail off to her room like an unfinished sentence, and I would sit outside with my face pressed against her door and replay the day in my head, searching for clues to what I'd done to displease her.
Gillian Flynn
#19. We are so afraid of silence that we chase ourselves from one event to the next in order not to have to spend a moment alone with ourselves, in order not to have to look at ourselves in the mirror.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer