Talk Quotes

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.

Fran Lebowitz

The good talk that is inseparable from a wine dinner is even more important than the wines that are being served. Never bring up your better bottles if you are entertaining a man who cannot talk. Keep your treasures for a night when those few who are nearest to your heart can gather round your table, free from care, with latchkeys in their pockets and no last train to catch.

Maurice Healy

Wine buffs write and talk as though the food and wine will be in your mouth at the same time, that one is there to be poured over the other. This is bullshit. Gustatory enjoyment comes from food and wine and cigars of your liking. So far no one has said that a Monte Cristo is the only cigar to smoke after Armagnac, Romeo and Juliet after Calvados ... but the time may yet come.

Clement Freud

Walking your talk is a great way to motivate yourself. No one likes to live a lie. Be honest with yourself, and you will find the motivation to do what you advise others to do.

Vince Poscente

And it is time for those who talk about family values to start valuing families.

Senator John Kerry

Statesman only talk of fate when they have blundered

Benito Mussolini

Those who talk about individuality the most are the ones who most object to deviation, and in a few years it may be the other way around. Some day everybody will just think what they want to think, and then everybody will probably be thinking alike; that

Andy Warhol

Women who make men talk better than they are accustomed to are always popular.

E.V. Lucas

They may talk of a comet, or a burning mountain, or some such bagatelle; but to me a modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.

Oliver Goldsmith

Mediocrity can talk; but it is for genius to observe

Benjamin Disraeli

Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about.

Hildegard Knef

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.

Jean de La Fontaine

They who talk much of destiny, their birth-star, etc., are in a lower dangerous plane, and invite the evil they fear.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

Dion Boucicault

Talk about dance? Dance is not something to talk about. Dance is to dance.

Peter Saint James