Tom Stoppard Quotes

I'm a talker.

I like to talk. I admit it.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

Seriously, I will probably out-talk you if you come up to me because I'm a chatterbox.

What can I say? I'm a talker.

Talking is always positive. That's why I talk too much.

I've always got something to say.

I'm just chatty. But I do express my opinion.

It was fun to talk too much [as Jebediah Woodley], to keep running your mouth whether the other characters want to hear it or not. That's part of what made this guy fun.

I've never been called a man of few words.

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

I like stories, and I really like words. So I like stories that rely on dialogue.

I like being able to have a conversation. I like being able to do a vocal interview.

There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.

They write them long because they can't write them short.

People love to talk but hate to listen.

The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.

We speak now or I do, and others do. You've never spoken before. You will. You'll be able to say how the city is a pit and a hill and a standard and an animal that hunts and a vessel on the sea and the sea and how we are fish in it, not like the man who swims weekly with fish but the fish with which he swims, the water, the pool. I love you, you light me, warm me, you are suns. You have never spoken before.

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

The only reason why we wish to exchange thoughts is that we are different. If we were all the same, we would die dumb. No thought would be expressed after we found that our thoughts were precisely alike. We differ-our thoughts are different. Therefore the commerse that we call conversation.

When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?

There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.

One must talk. That's how it is. One must.

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

Writing is the best way to talk without being interrupted.