Quotes About Prolix

In the end he overtalked it, like he did everything

Perimate la Proust sunt acele fleacuri umflate de un delir prolix, damfurile stilului simbolist, aglomerarea de efecte, saturaÅ£ia poetic?. E ca ÅŸi cum un Saint-Simon ar fi suferit influenÅ£a PreÅ£ioaselor. Nimeni nu l-ar mai citi în ziua de azi.

The woman never used one word when she could torment ten.

I'm unfortunately very verbose too often.

For another 300 years lawyers would continue to do a great deal of their writing and thinking in French, and they would supplement it with generous helpings of Latin – words like affidavit and subpoena – which conveyed an air of precision and authority unavailable to English. To this day the language of the law proves prolix, repetitious, archaic and theatrical, as indeed do many of its quite mystifying processes and practitioners.