Robert Morley Quotes

I don't talk a lot.

Conversation is the image of the mind. As the man is, so is his talk.

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

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

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

Silence is the last thing the world will ever hear from me.

Talking is the disease of age.

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

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

I guess a lot of people don't like talking.

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

I really don't talk much.

When I rest, I can talk. When I don't rest, I can't talk.

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.

Don't sit as if you have nothing to say. You should be bursting with things to say. You just choose at this particular place and time, not to say them.

I like to talk. Talking is kind of my thing. If talking had been a sport option at Wexford, I would have been captain. But sports always have to involve running, jumping, or swinging your arms around. You don’t get PE points for the smooth and rapid movement of the jaw.

Everyone knows how to talk, and no one knows what to say.

I really don't care that much about "Beauties." What I really like are Talkers. To me, good talkers are beautiful because good talk is what I love. The word itself shows why I like Talkers better than Beauties, why I tape more than I film. It's not "talkies." Talkers are doing something.

I always play more than I talk, so the more I talk, the more I'll play.

Great talkers should be cropt, for they've no need of ears.

What you say is who you are. How you say it is your style.

I learned real early why God gave us two ears and one mouth, because you're supposed to listen twice as much as you talk.

How ironical that it is by means of speech that man can degrade himself below the level of dumb creation -- for a chatterbox is truly of a lower category than a dumb creature.

Speak and speed: the close mouth catches no flies.

Instead of talking in the hope that people will listen, try listening in the hope that people will talk.