Talk Quotes - page 2

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country. (Bertrand Russell)
If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives. View quote
Marlon Brando
Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just and idea, just pie in the sky. View quote
Boris Yeltsin
If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. View quote
Jane Austen
I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading. View quote
Vera Brittain
If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. View quote
Thomas Szasz
I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. View quote
Nelson Mandela
Do not be quick to talk about three things: about God until you establish faith in Him, about another's sin until you remember your own and about tomorrow until you see the dawn. View quote
Nikolaj Velimirovic
[He] may talk like an idiot, and look like an idiot, but don't let that fool you: he really is an idiot. View quote
Groucho Marx
Next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you. (Groucho Marx)
When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking. It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it's kind of a sickness. View quote
Lauren Bacall
If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour? View quote
Thomas Jefferson
I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about. View quote
William Hazlitt
Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules. View quote
Maria Callas
I talk to God but the sky is empty. View quote
Sylvia Plath
An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say "Gentlemen" to the person with whom he is conversing. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions. View quote
Dorothy Day
The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness. View quote
Edward Gibbon
Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense. View quote
Robert Frost
People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid. (Henry James)
I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests. View quote
Henry Miller
The peculiar foreign superstition that the English do not like love, the evidence being that they do not talk about it. View quote
V. S. Pritchett
📖 Talk Proverbs