Montesquieu Quotes

And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say.

They talk most who have the least to say.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.

The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs.

I am not a sound bite person. I prefer to run at the mouth.

He could talk a dog off a meat wagon. He talked a lot but said nothing.

I'm an over-communicator a lot of the time.

Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.

People who have nothing to say are never at a loss in talking.

The truth of it is that women are far more logical than men.

Women have a greater verbal capacity.

Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

It's amazing how I can just ramble on for hours, isn't it? And so unentertaining or uninteresting. But I can ramble on for hours. It's a sort of terrible gift, isn't it?

Men do tend to talk about things on a much higher level.

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.

I don't quite know why, but I am long-winded.

… too much of a talker to be a deep thinker

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

One of the first studies in the field of gender and language, by Don H. Zimmerman and Candace West in 1975, found that in casual conversations between women and men, women were interrupted far more often.

I talk a lot, and that is probably exhausting.

The word 'ranting' is kind of overused now. Literally, if you just talk about a subject for 30 seconds or more, even if you never raised your voice, if I just talk about it, it's called a rant.

When I open my mouth and talk, sometimes people say they are amazed of my intellect. I don't know if that's because I truly speak in a way that people can understand or feel a certain way, or because they don't expect it. I don't know. That's something I am curious about.

I think that people in Mexico talk too much.