Reggie Watts Quotes

Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about.

I think that people in Mexico talk too much.

One should go to the line through the character. You should see their lifestyle in the way they speak.

The last thing an Englishman wants to hear is a man from Brussels trying to imitate his language - you want to hear a different point of view. You may not be able to understand the details, but you can understand the feeling.

When we don't speak, said Edgar, we become unbearable, and when we do, we make fools of ourselves.

Why speak if you can't manage perfect thoughts, perfect sentences?

A conversation in English in Finnish and in French can not be held at the same time nor with indifference ever or after a time.

When somebody says something I don't agree with, I say I'd rather not. It comes to the point where that is the strongest form of resistance. As a Mexican, it took me a long while to learn one word in English, "no". And that is the one word we have in common.

It is a sad thing when men have neither enough intelligence to speak well nor enough sense to hold their tongues; this is the root of all impertinence.

Don't speak to fools, they scorn the wisdom of your words.

I speak the truth but I guess that's a foreign language to ya'll!

...words are some of the most powerful and important things I know....Language is the tool of love and the weapon of hatred. It's the bright red warning flag of danger--and the stone foundation of diplomacy and peace.

Evil isn’t the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and it’s a hell of a lot more common. What we really need is a crusade against Stupid. That might actually make a difference.

The enemy isn’t men, or women, it’s bloody stupid people and no-one has the right to be stupid.

When we learn to speak, we learn to translate.

People do not read stupidities with impunity.

I don't understand why people never say what they mean. It's like the immigrants who come to a country and learn the language but are completely baffled by idioms. (Seriously, how could anyone who isn't a native English speaker 'get the picture,' so to speak, and not assume it has something to do with a photo or a painting?)

If you're gonna be stupid you gotta be tough.

Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.

The stupidest man I ever met had a favourite saying. It was: 'What do you think I am, stupid, or something?’

Time flies when you’re being stupid.

At least when you're young you're also stupid.

The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else's fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore that there are no errors, that any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.

Half-wits talk much, but say little.

He's Black Council," I said. "Or maybe stupid," Ebenezar countered. I thought about it. "Not sure which is scarier." Ebenezar blinked at me, then snorted. "Stupid, Hoss. Every time. Only so many blackhearted villains in the world, and they only get uppity on occasion. Stupid's everywhere, every day.