Matthew Prior Quotes

They talk most who have the least to say.

The less men think, the more they talk.

I don't quite know why, but I am long-winded.

We [journalists] have a tendency to go on talking even when we have nothing to say.

People who have nothing to say are never at a loss in talking.

It's amazing how I can just ramble on for hours, isn't it? And so unentertaining or uninteresting. But I can ramble on for hours. It's a sort of terrible gift, isn't it?

The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.

I am not a sound bite person. I prefer to run at the mouth.

He could talk a dog off a meat wagon. He talked a lot but said nothing.

In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it.

Who talks much, must talk in vain.

You speak an infinite deal of nothing.

A gentleman that loves to hear himself talk, will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.

Loquacity with tongue or pen is its own reward -- or, punishment.

Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.

Half-wits talk much, but say little.

Sometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing - and a neater one than silence.

You know coaches. Sometimes they ramble.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Some people don't know when to stop talking.

I'm unfortunately very verbose too often.

The inarticulate speak longest.

We know that he has, more than any other man, the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thought.