Quotes About Talking About Oneself

#1. Emily Post says that talking about oneself isn't very polite.' 'I'm sure Miss Post is perfectly correct, but that doesn't seem to stop the rest of us.

Amor Towles

#2. I find it awfully difficult to determine if the habit of talking about oneself at length runs contrary to the basic rules of propriety, or if instead the man exempt from this vice is rare.

Giacomo Leopardi

#3. I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

Stephen Fry

#4. The less one knows about oneself, the more one enjoys talking about oneself

Guy Finley

#5. In talking about the impact of ideas in one field on ideas in another field, one is always apt to make a fool of oneself.

Richard P. Feynman

#6. Cara sipped her juice and then said, "Talking about de-stressing oneself ... " She laughed softly. "You've got to see the River Dancing Festival tonight at the park. It's great entertainment. They might even teach you how to River Dance. Sometimes they do that.:

Linda Weaver Clarke

#7. Coldest the remembrance of the wider ocean
wealth, caste, custom intervened between me and what I naturally and inevitably loved.

Charlotte Bronte

#8. We have laws against polluting our rivers but not against polluting our minds.

Robert Barron

#9. What is and what is not create each other.

Laozi

#10. To find out who you are is like putting yourself on a psychiatric couch, but you have nobody to help you. Really it isn't easy. I was talking with my nephew this morning and he gave me one of the best quotes I've heard in years 'Personal style is curiosity about oneself.'

Iris Apfel

#11. Talking much about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#12. Teagan: How long has it been since you read a book that didn't havevampires in it?
Abby: They write books with no vampires? Wait ... the penguins made us read that Shakesrear guy, right?
Teagan: Shakespeare.

Kersten Hamilton

#13. Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#14. Writing poetry is talking to oneself; yet it is a mode of talking to oneself in which the self disappears; and the product's something that, though it may not be for everybody, is about everybody.

Richard Wilbur

#15. To me, science fiction is about the sense of mystery, the sense of awe. Not 'shock and awe', just 'awe.'

J. Michael Straczynski

#16. What will die with me the day I die? What pathetic or frail image will be lost to the world? The voice of Macedonio Fernandez, the image of a bay horse in a vacant lot on the corner of Sarrano and Charcas, a bar of sulfur in the drawer of a mahogany desk?

Jorge Luis Borges

#17. To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June.

Jean Paul Friedrich Richter