Unnecessary Speech Quotes

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

The things you do not have to say make you rich. Saying things you do not have to say weakens your talk. Hearing things you do not need to hear dulls your hearing. And things you know before you hear them — those are you, those are why you are in the world.

Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless-nay, the speech they have resolved not to utter.

Too many people seem to believe that silence was a void that needed to be filled, even if nothing important was said.

We [journalists] have a tendency to go on talking even when we have nothing to say.

Have you ever noticed that when people use the expression 'I have to say', what follows usually needn't be said?

There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.

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

Gossiping and squawking for no reason is really pointless.