Mary McGrory Quotes

They talk most who have the least to say.

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

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

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

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

You know coaches. Sometimes they ramble.

Seriously, I will probably out-talk you if you come up to me because I'm a chatterbox.

I talk too much.

Some people don't know when to stop talking.

An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.

I'm unfortunately very verbose too often.

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

The inarticulate speak longest.

People [in politics] do go on and talk.

In this Day the secrets of the earth are laid bare before the eyes of men. The pages of swiftly-appearing newspapers are indeed the mirror of the world. They reflect the deeds and the pursuits of diverse peoples and kindreds. They both reflect them and make them known. They are a mirror endowed with hearing, sight and speech. This is an amazing and potent phenomenon. However, it behooveth the writers thereof to be purged from the promptings of evil passions and desires and to be attired with the raiment of justice and equity. They should enquire into situations as much as possible and ascertain the facts, then set them down in writing.

A lot of people talk too much. They speak... except they don't.

Silence is regarded as a sort of sin now, and it has to be filled with a lot of gossip and soundbites.

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

Writers talk too much.

Talkers expand like bread dough.

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

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

Sometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing - and a neater one than silence.

I think sometimes the recording of each act which has gone into the perpetration of some crime simply gives new suggestions to less fertile minds. I realize that crimes are "news," but I wonder if they could not be very briefly recorded, leaving out as much detail as possible and by doing so it might be easier for the arm of the law to proceed in unsolved crimes. The public is, of course, to blame, for apparently there is a curious fascination for many people in the reading of all these gruesome details. Is there no way that the public for its own protection can be induced to forego some of this particular type of reading matter?

Newspapers are inherently inefficient and anger a lot of people.