# Quote — Jack Vance, The Dirdir

> They consider garrulity a crime against nature.

- Author: [Jack Vance](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance.md)
- Book: [The Dirdir](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/the-dirdir.md)
- Page: 315
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jack_Vance#The_Dirdir_(1969)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/the-dirdir/they-consider-garrulity

## More from this book

> Where cowards never venture, heroes find splendor.

p. 300 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/the-dirdir/where-cowards-never.md)

> There is no reason why the project should not go easily and smoothly except for the innate perversity of circumstances.

p. 345 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/the-dirdir/there-is-no-reason.md)

> “Do you deny the charges?”
>
> “I neither confirm nor deny them; they are ridiculous.”

p. 408 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/the-dirdir/do-you-deny.md)