#loquacity

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#comes #company #conversation #full #good

Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart. ↗

— Robert South

#heart #loquacity #modesty #storms #takes

C'est un parleur étrange, et qui trouve toujours L'art de ne vous rien dire avec de grands discours. ↗

— Molière

#art

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact. ↗

— George Eliot

#blessings #loquacity #remaining-silent #reticence #silence

But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little and who talk too much. ↗

— John Dryden

#loquacity #thoughtlessness #contemporary

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#ignorant #knowledge #loquacity #prefer