I use circumlocution too often, and instead of getting my…

I tend to babble, which is quite bad.

— Stacy Martin

“Would it not therefore be wiser in moral concerns to acquiesce in the judgement of common reason, or at most only to call in…

— Immanuel Kant

“Your state has been seen, and will be reported on. Only it is necessary that you do not yawn. Or, of course, speak. Discretion…

— Dorothy Dunnett

“Personal life, expression, knowledge, and history advance obliquely, and not directly, toward ends or toward concepts. That which is sought too deliberately is not…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“There lives no man who at some period has not been tormented, for example, by an earnest desire to tantalize a listener by circumlocution.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

Granted I am a babbler, a harmless vexatious babbler, like all of us. But what is to be done if the direct and sole…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Twittering just seemed to be people telling other people what they were doing--getting in the shower, making coffee. Who on earth wanted to know…

— Kate Atkinson

“Too friendly, too eager to be on message, man is obsolete, dooming ourselves to extinction, restore the balance of nature and babble babble, he…

— Margaret Atwood

“If something bad smells in the basement, it will eventually make its way to the attic.”

— Anthony Liccione

Amidst all the internal and external babble we experience daily, it's hard to find one's foundation.

— Julia Holter

I am always surprised when people read double entendres into my innocuous babble.

— Nigella Lawson

“Keeping your mouth shut is a devastating weapon. Your silence will make your opponent want to babble.”

— Lee Child

When it comes to love women always have the poor and babble.

— Meicee

“Oh stupid, silly, awkward me; Will I never, ever see? People babble, speak, and talk; All I can do is stand and gawk!”

— Margo T. Rose

To babble is to make a feminine noise somewhat resembling the sound of a brook, but with less meaning.

— Oliver Herford