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Quotes About Prate

I find it next to impossible to remain politely silent when people prate to me about the glory of being given another chance to live happily ever after!
~ Mercedes McCambridge
With patient inattention hear him prate.
~ George Meredith
A fool is he that comes to preach or prate, When men with swords their right and wrong debate. [It., Chi conta i colpi e la dovuta offesa, Mentr' arde la tenzon, misura e pesa?]
~ Torquato Tasso
Aristocrats need not be rich, but they must be free, and in the modern world freedom grows rarer the more we prate about it.
~ Robertson Davies
What is it that escapes the observation of poets? What is that act women are incapable of doing? What will drunken people not prate? What will not a crow eat?
~ Chanakya