“ Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
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“ Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks. ”
- Jean Kerr- Copy
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“ Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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“ Let me be cruel, not unnatural; I will speak daggers to her, but use none. My tongue and soul in this be hypocrites: How in my words somever she be shent, To give them seals never, my soul, consent! ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 1.4K
“ So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip. ”
- Will Rogers- Copy
- 2.6K
“ The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Talking and eloquence are not the same thing: to speak, and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks. ”
- Ben Johnson- Copy
- 1.7K
“ After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of that one. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate. ”
- Mel Gibson- Copy
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“ It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people. ”
- Barbara Walters- Copy
- 1.2K
“ His speech was a fine sample, on the whole, Of rhetoric, which the learn'd call "rigmarole. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid. ”
- Walter Winchell- Copy
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“ A little public scandal is good once in a while - takes the tension out of the news. ”
- Beryl Pfizer- Copy
- 3.3K
“ But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little and who talk too much. ”
- John Dryden- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Look wise; say nothing and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought. ”
- William Osler- Copy
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“ Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes. ”
- Robert Louis Stevenson- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 1.5K
“ No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation. ”
- Fran Lebowitz- Copy
- 2.8K
“ An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation. ”
- Laurence Sterne- Copy
- 2.7K
“ All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy. - What We Live By. ”
- Ernest Dimnet- Copy
- 541
“ Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
- 3.3K
“ The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation — or a relationship. ”
- Deborah Tannen- Copy
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