Quotes About Verbosity

A fool's voice is known by a multitude of words.

Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.

Ideas of value always shun verbosity, being foreign to confusion and fantasy. Timely silence, then, is precious, for it is nothing less than the mother of the wisest thoughts.

Radite na tome da budete elokventni.Vecina njih zna samo da prica, mnogo vise nego sto treba.

The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.

An orgy of words, after all, is still an orgy.

Bill Clinton was a very, very good speaker. But like many people who are great speakers and great thinkers and have a lot of energy and ambition, he talked too much.

As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is that of little minds to use many words to say nothing.

The more one reads poetry, the less tolerant one becomes of any sort of verbosity, be that in political or philosophical discourse, be that in history, social studies or the art of fiction.

Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

Another d-mn'd thick, square book! Always, scribble, scribble, scribble! Eh! Mr. Gibbon?

Las palabras son como las hojas; cuando abundan, poco fruto hay entre ellas.

I was sorry I had missed it because talk by those two is always worth hearing. You get good examples of how much a man can say in a few words and also of how little he can say in a lot of words.

It makes me happy, and also sad, to think that this is where playful language is cherished now, and where the verbosity that I and my clever friends prized in our youth has gone to reside: the slums. Words don't cost a penny; during the Depression, they were all many of us had. I used them to make a fortune.

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.

Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise,Three-pil'd hyperboles, spruce affectation,Figures pedantical.

You speak an infinite deal of nothing.

Of course, he smothered it in words—odd words, too—melodramatic, poetic, out-of-the-way words that lie just on the edge of frenzy.

And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians.

What can I say? I'm a talker.

I was always a talker. You just don't wake up one morning and say, I think I want to talk a little more.' Some are better at it than others.

He who talks much cannot talk well.

DC will always talk. I just found out he just talks. I kind of figured it out. He talks just to hear himself talk. I know he wants to be that guy that's a big time promoter and all this other stuff, but I think he's his own biggest cheerleader and his worst promoter for sure.