soliloquist

Not only am I a horrible liar, but my inner soliloquist had also begun to chime in.

Larkin Clark: Take the Age: Reclaiming Your Years in a Youth-Obsessed World 2009

His larger concerns seem to be ethical, not oracular, and it would not be unfair to call him a soliloquist.

A River Runs Through It 2007

And finally, after an unbearable pause, bathos: "Oh," the soliloquist bellowed, "oh, if ever a body suffered ...!"

The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967

My aunt felt the fatigue less, we thought, for she was a famous soliloquist, and often talked to herself as we rode, sometimes laughing aloud at her own good company.

A belle of the fifties : memoirs of Mrs. Clay, of Alabama, covering social and political life in Washington and the South, 1853-66, 1905

Poor Lawrence drives our soliloquist mad with his deliberate table manners, with his deliberate method of speech, with his care about his own goblet and spoon.

Robert Browning: How to Know Him William Lyon Phelps 1904

Their characters may be direct and plain as those of Lear and Kent, or they may be as subtly shaded as that of Hamlet or of the melancholy soliloquist of Arden.

Platform Monologues 1902

But it would have been a much more difficult task to represent Carlyle's talk than it was to represent Johnson's, because Carlyle was an inspired soliloquist, and supplied both objection and repartee out of his own mind.

Where No Fear Was Arthur Christopher Benson 1893

The soliloquist thought it necessary to repeat his last words twice to convince himself and the atmosphere that his position was one of grievance.

Somehow Good William Frend De Morgan 1878

"Why, a soliloquist in a crowd can hardly but be overheard, and without much reproach to the hearer."

The Confidence-Man 1857

"Why, a soliloquist in a crowd can hardly but be overheard, and without much reproach to the hearer."

The Confidence-Man Herman Melville 1855