Quote by Jonathan Swift Download Open image “Nothing is more generally exploded than the folly of talking too much.” — Jonathan Swift ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
At times, you have to maybe speak out of turn or say a little bit too much which upsets a few people. — Steve Clarke Copy Share Image
We all need to express ourselves, but a lot of the time, you know, you turn inward, and you actually implode rather than explode.… — Aimee Lou Wood Copy Share Image
When there is too much to say it is easier to say nothing at all. — Patricia Wentworth Copy Share Image
One thing talk can't accomplish is communication. This is because everybody's talking too much to pay attention to what anyone is saying — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
We seldom get into trouble when we speak softly. It is only when we raise our voices that the sparks fly and tiny molehills… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
talking too much is a far greater social fault than talking too little. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
when one never speaks, one has nothing to say because one has too much to say. — Ingrid Bergman Copy Share Image
There is nothing harder, at moments, than talking to someone who has all the power of silence. — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
If you talk too much, people will stop listening. If you don't talk enough, people will never hear your point of view. — Suman Rai Copy Share Image
Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“He said, he knew no reason why those who entertain opinions prejudicial to the public should be obliged to change, or should not be… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I with borrow'd silver shine, What you see is none of mine. First I show you but a quarter, Like the bow that guards… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
A forward critic often dupes us With sham quotations peri hupsos, And if we have not read Longinus, Will magisterially outshine us. Then, lest… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image