Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

I know I probably offend some people. I have been talking a little too much so I'm trying not to talk as much.

Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself.

We seldom repent talking little, but very often talking too much.

Talk often, but never long; in that case, if you do not please, at least you are sure not to tire your hearers. Pay your own reckoning, but do not treat the whole company; this being one of the few cases in which people do not care to be treated, every one being fully convinced that he has wherewithal to pay.

That's why I don't talk. Because I talk too much.

I find it awfully difficult to determine if the habit of talking about oneself at length runs contrary to the basic rules of propriety, or if instead the man exempt from this vice is rare.

Keep skid chains on your tongue. Say less than you think. Cultivate a pleasant voice. How you say it is often more important than what you say.

Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.

I find that talking about myself is often the most boring thing in the world. Sixty per cent of interviews I find mechanical.

It illustrates vividly my incapacity of knowing when to be silent and when to speak.

All the movements of our body are not merely those dictated by impulse or weariness; they are the correct expression of what we consider decorous. Without impulses, we could take no part in social life; on the other hand, without inhibitions, we could not correct, direct, and utilize our impulses.

I often talk too much and don't listen enough.

I was always a talker. You just don't wake up one morning and say, I think I want to talk a little more.' Some are better at it than others.

I think that God has blessed each of us with innate gifts, and if I've demonstrated any ability to not stick my foot in my mouth on air or in the written word, then I will take that and stand for liberty on the right side of God.

I feel like I'm more comfortable talking to people. I've been put in the position where I have to, and it's not something I can avoid anymore.

I've walked away in the middle of a conversation and had no idea that was wrong until someone told me I was being rude.

You don't want to be one of these guys talking all the time, trying to say things all the time, because people start drowning you out.

Confidence in conversation has a greater share than wit.

For some reason, talking is easy for me. Practice does make perfect; I've been doing it for a while. Being out there in a high-pressure situation with a live audience and a live TV camera on you, it brings something out. It's very organic.

The two best subjects for conversation are talking shop and making love.

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

I suppose the difference between baby people and me is that I do not consider smiling while farting 'holding up your end of a conversation.

Not greeting people isn't enough. One also doesn't greet people one doesn't know.

There are three things in speech that ought to be considered before some things are spoken--the manner, the place and the time.

There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting.