Brevity Quote by Jarod Kintz

I don't like talk and I don't like talkers. Like Ma Barker. That's what she always said, 'Ma Barker doesn't like talk and she…

— David Bowie

It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that, whatever you say to them, they always purr: "If…

— Lewis Carroll

“Dialogue is not just quotation. It is grimaces, pauses, adjustments of blouses, doodles on a napkin, and crossings of legs. When people communicate, they…

— Jerome Stern

“We no longer have a sufficiently high estimate of ourselves when we communicate. Our true experiences are not garrulous. They could not communicate themselves…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.

— Rebecca West

“Why do people who can talk right waste so many words saying nothing?”

— Vince Vawter

Conversation, which is friendship's mode of expression, is a superficial digression which gives us nothing worth acquiring. We may talk for a lifetime without…

— Marcel Proust

Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions and guiles,…

— Jack Vance

I read one book where the characters never said anything; instead, they spent all their time grunting and bleating and hissing and cooing and…

— Tana French

Sometimes insight into character and dialogue means being silent.

— Jeff VanderMeer

'Speak when you're spoken to!' The Queen sharply interrupted her. 'But if everybody obeyed that rule,' said Alice, who was always ready for a…

— Lewis Carroll

So much of what passes for conversation today is degraded. It's either about one-upmanship, or dreary trivia. Even the cut and thrust of wit…

— Theodore Zeldin