“And not to serve for a table-talk.”
Book II, Ch. 3. The Custom of the Isle of Cea
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Table talk and Lovers' talk equally elude the grasp; Lovers' Talk is clouds, Table Talk is smoke."
Les Miserables”
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French poet, novelist, and dramatist 1802–1885Related quotes
“We will not seat at the same table with the comunists. I will never talk to them.”
Manuel Fraga Iribarne
(1922–2012) Spanish politician
Reported in Hernández, María Jesús. El verbo de don Manuel http://www.elmundo.es/especiales/espana/manuel-fraga/perlas/02.html Elmundo.es.
Transition to democracy
“The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade,
For talking age and whispering lovers made.”
Source: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 13.
“Lovers never get tired of each other, because they are always talking about themselves.”
Ce qui fait que les amants et les maîtresses ne s'ennuient point d'être ensemble, c'est qu'ils parlent toujours d'eux-mêmes.
Variant translation: What makes lovers and their mistresses never weary of being together is that they are always talking about themselves.
Maxim 312.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“I long to talk with some old lover's ghost,
Who died before the god of love was born.”
John Donne
(1572–1631) English poet
Love's Deity, stanza 1
Samuel Johnson
(1709–1784) English writer
Quoted in the "Apophthegms, Sentiments, Opinions and Occasional Reflections" of Sir John Hawkins (1787-1789) in Johnsonian Miscellanies (1897), vol. II, p. 11, edited by George Birkbeck Hill
Michel De Montaigne
(1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman
The Autobiography of Michel de Montaigne, Chapter III, pg. 24 (Translated by Marvin Lowenthal
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Paul Manafort
(1949) American political consultant
Interview on NBC News' Meet The Press (July 31, 2016)
“Let me tell you what I just heard. Talk, talk, talk, I. Talk, talk, talk, I. Well, what about me?”
Gena Showalter
(1975) American writer
Source: The Darkest Seduction