Meaningless Speech Quotes

Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you.

They talk most who have the least to say.

you had nothing to say about it and yet made the nothing up into words.

Half-wits talk much, but say little.

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

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

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood.

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

And that's why people no longer care which words they use as long as they use lots of them.

Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.

Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it just to reach you.

This trial has developed in the most remarkable manner, the insane love of speaking among public men. We are wading knee deep in words, words, words ….

I don't feel that I have anything to say beyond moral truisms.

You speak an infinite deal of nothing.

He's a wonderful talker, who has the art of telling you nothing in a great harangue.

When language is used without true significance, it loses its purpose as a means of communication and becomes an end in itself.

Empty words almost echo within themselves

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.

You're all mad for words. Words are just farts from a lot of fools who have swallowed too many books. Give me things!

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

When speech is divorced from speaker and word from meaning, what is left is just ritual, language as ritual.

If our life is poured out in useless words, we will never hear anything, never become anything, and in the end, because we have said everything before we had anything to say, we shall be left speechless at the moment of our greatest decision.

I think talk is cheap - when I hear people say what they'd like to happen, I think it's empty.

Often one's dear friend talks something which one scruples to call rigmarole.