Laurence Sterne Quotes

In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it.

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.

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

Loquacity with tongue or pen is its own reward -- or, punishment.

Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.

Talkativeness has another plague attached to it, even curiosity; for praters wish to hear much that they may have much to say.

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

A gentleman that loves to hear himself talk, will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.

Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.

They talk most who have the least to say.

Sorry to interrupt myself, but it's the only way I stop talking.

I talk too much.

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

Chatterers are a menace.

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

We know that he has, more than any other man, the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thought.

People [in politics] do go on and talk.

I was really talkative as a child. The priest used to pray for me not to talk so much because I was distracting the other kids.

I love Nudge, Nudge is a great kid, but that motormouth of hers could have turned Mother Teresa into an ax murderer.

The way to be a bore is to say everything.

You remind me of Hubert Humphrey. You talk too much

There are few things in life worse than a long-winded lawyer.

Writers talk too much.

For me Wagner is impossible... he talks without ever stopping. One can't just talk all the time.

Talkers expand like bread dough.