Prattle Quotes
16 quotes by 15 authors
-
What the great ones do, the less will prattle of
— William Shakespeare
-
You who prattle that morality is social and that man would need no morality on a desert island - it is on a desert island…
— Ayn Rand
-
Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
-
Time says hush: by the gong of time you live. Listen and you hear time saying you were silent long before you came to life…
— Carl Sandburg
-
In an article on Bunyan lately published in the "Contemporary Review" - the only article on the subject worth reading on the subject I ever…
— George Bernard Shaw
-
Let us not look east and west for materials of conversation, but rest in presence and unity. A just feeling will fast enough supply fuel…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
-
One listens to one's lawyer prattle on as long as one can stand it and then signs where indicated.
— Alexander Woollcott
-
No man is much regarded by the rest of the world. He that considers how little he dwells upon the condition of others, will learn…
— Samuel Johnson
-
Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?
— Epictetus
-
As for us, we were never concerned with the Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the sacredness of human life.
— Leon Trotsky
-
The violets prattle and titter, And gaze on the stars high above.
— Heinrich Heine
-
Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less.
— W. Somerset Maugham
-
Fenworth!' Yes?' You bore me with your prattle.' Oh, regrettable that. Why don't you seek the company of someone who doesn't prattle? Seems like a…
— Donita K. Paul
-
I cry. Evil dissolves, and love, like foam; that love. Prattle of children powers me home, my heart claps like the swan’s under a frenzy…
— John Berryman
-
Nick rubbed his hand across his face as he tried to make sense of her prattle. But that was the thing about Simi. She seldom…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
-
Books don't prattle. Books don't make demands. Yet they give you everything they possess. It's a very satisfying partnership.
— Carol Berg
Who Wrote These Prattle Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 16 Prattle Quotes as follows: