John Dos Passos Quotes

Good talkers are only found in Paris.

I never spoke to this many Yankees at one time.

I'm a talker.

Radio affords you the opportunity to pontificate and elaborate extensively.

Most English talk is a quadrille in a sentry-box.

I just think people overvalue argument because they like to hear themselves talk.

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.

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

No man pleases by silence; many I please by speaking briefly.

The person who talks a lot or talks over people misses out because they weren't listening.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

We do not learn first what to talk about and then what to say about it.

I'm a talker. I love a good debate.

I do do a lot of talking, because it saves me listening.

Talking is the disease of age.

Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.

As I say, I'm a discourse advocate. What form it comes is less important to me than the fact that there is discourse.

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

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

Talking and eloquence are not the same.

I [Moses] am not a man of words.

A good talker, even more than a good orator, implies a good audience. Modern society is too vast and too restless to give a conversationalist a fair chance.

The very essence of modern life is the opportunity for people everywhere to speak, hear, persuade, change their minds, know what others are thinking, and think for themselves.

I don't like to be the only person talking in a room.