Robert Downey Jr. Quotes

It is my custom to keep on talking until I get the audience cowed.

I gotta use words to talk to you.

Great talkers should be cropt, for they've no need of ears.

Making clever speeches takes a lot of work and a lot of time.

Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.

I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.

Talking and eloquence are not the same.

As reason is the glory of man, so the lamp of reason is eloquence.

God and my dad gave me the gift of gab. I know how to finagle.

I'm not good at throwing around rhetoric.

I'm not a good talker, I'm a great talker because I do it so often over a long period of time.

A fine thought in fine language is a most precious jewel, and should not be hid away, but be exposed for use and ornament.

Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.

The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.

I know, indeed, and can conceive of no pursuit so antagonistic to the cultivation of the oratorical faculty ... as the study of Mathematics. An eloquent mathematician must, from the nature of things, ever remain as rare a phenomenon as a talking fish, and it is certain that the more anyone gives himself up to the study of oratorical effect the less will he find himself in a fit state to mathematicize.

He spoke with more eloquence than wisdom.

Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable.

Stop playing verbal games with me, madam, or I shall go out into that ballroom, find your mother, and bring her here

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, 'Action, Action, Action.'

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

Rhetoric is nothing but reason well dressed and argument put in order.

Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.

Writing is always harder than talking.

Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves and their auditors.

The talkers are rising above the thinkers.