Maureen Johnson Quotes

Talking and eloquence are not the same.

Common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter.

The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things.

I am not eloquent.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

Ordinary people can be very articulate and very eloquent.

Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way.

I really don't care that much about "Beauties." What I really like are Talkers. To me, good talkers are beautiful because good talk is what I love. The word itself shows why I like Talkers better than Beauties, why I tape more than I film. It's not "talkies." Talkers are doing something.

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

What can I say? I'm a talker.

Talking is the disease of age.

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

The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.

To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

We love to hear some men speak, though we hear not what they say.

Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information.

I'm a talker.

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

Do you know why I don't like doing press? I have trouble condensing things. I'd rather have a conversation.

I think, for me, one of the things I've been blessed with is the ability to speak with clarity.

Chauncy Burr ... talks well, possibly better than he thinks. But this is a common failing.

The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.

It's not what enters men's mouth that is evil," said the alchemist. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.

Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth.