Edmund Waller Quotes

You speak an infinite deal of nothing.

Fair words enough a man shall find, They be good cheap: they cost right nought, Their substance is but only wind.

In this region declarations, speeches, words are worthless.

I think talk is cheap - when I hear people say what they'd like to happen, I think it's empty.

you had nothing to say about it and yet made the nothing up into words.

I am tired of talk that comes to nothing.

Politicians talk themselves red, white, and blue in the face.

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.

Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.

One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say.

… only an empty political formula

That which makes much noise and does nothing useful.

All tongue, without either head or heart.’

Many words are spoken when there’s nothing to say.

A lot of people talk too much. They speak... except they don't.

Basically, country is my kind of music - the simple melody, the simple lyrics.

Michael Bisping just speaks to speak; he just talks to talk. He just tries to open his mouth so that something can be heard, but nothing's going to come out.

They're just words is all. Powerless. Vocabulary. Dialogue.

What makes that song, I think, is how stark it is.

Our public men are speaking every day on something, but they ain't saying anything.

I want to write songs with complete sentences. I almos have this obsession with short-changing words. I would never be so pretentious to say that my lyrics are poetry. ... Poems are poems. Song lyrics are for songs.

You're like a dull knife, just ain't cuttin', just talkin' loud and saying nothing

To utter pleasant words without practicing them, is like a fine flower without fragrance.

In the end words are just wind.

As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest blabbers