"Chatterer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... within me to proclaim the foolish chatterer as a prophet. So life was not as I had been taught—a painful struggle between good and evil. There was no such thing as evil; the senseless epithet was a libel upon Nature. Not through wearisome repression, but rather through joyous expression of ...
— Paul Kelver • Jerome Klapka, AKA Jerome K. Jerome
... weather prophet by predicting on the first day of December a very severe winter. It was an easy guess. I saw in Detroit a bird from the far north, a bird I had never before seen, the Bohemian waxwing, or chatterer. It breeds above the Arctic Circle and is common to both hemispheres. I said, When the Arctic birds come down, be sure there is a cold wave behind them. ...
— Under the Maples • John Burroughs
... there was an unbearable chatterer named Theodore Joussian, a wine dealer. Oh, he ...
— My Double Life - The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt • Sarah Bernhardt
... anything of myself. Don't be conceited, child, and be grateful for all the kindness you have received. Did you not get into a warm room, and have you not fallen into company from which you may learn something? But you are a chatterer, and it is not pleasant to associate with you. You may believe me, I speak for your good. I tell you disagreeable things, and by that one may always know one's friends. Only take care that you learn to lay eggs, or to purr and ...
— Types of Children's Literature • Edited by Walter Barnes
... him curiously. Idigi was squat and fat, but wise. None the less he gossiped, for, as they say on the river, "Even the wise oochiri is a chatterer." ...
— Bones - Being Further Adventures in Mr. Commissioner Sanders' Country • Edgar Wallace
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