Quotes About Verbosity

You employ large phrases.

Bethyl Ann has vomited words like she ate the dictionary.

Talk's the way to kill it. Anything gets boring if you talk about it enough, even death.

Talk's the way to kill it. Anything gets boring if you talk about it enough, even death.

In loquaciousness lay insanity.

He had the unfortunate combination of being garrulous without being articulate.

He was a mine of irrelevant information and unasked-for good advice. Once started, he went on and on—boomingly.

Computers change the way we deal with words," Dr. Macgregor continued. "They somehow unlock language in the mind. But they do so in a very particular way – they induce Ã¢â'¬Â¦ well, I suppose we should call it logorrhoea, a sort of verbal diarrhoea. The words come tumbling out and people feel they can go on and on. And they do. Poetry has to be much more disciplined, much more concise.

A succession of philosophers and historians spent their time studiously attempting to say nothing as successfully as possible.

I'm a prolific overanalyzer. And I can always use 15 words in place of three 3, no matter what.

Talking is always positive. That's why I talk too much.

People confuse being full of words with being terribly intelligent and informed.

Prolixity is not alien to us in India. We are able to talk at some length.

LOQUACITY, n. A disorder which renders the sufferer unable to curb his tongue when you wish to talk.

He was a small, stringy man of about fifty, with immense horn-rimmed spectacles, a long, sharp nose, and an unusual capacity for garrulous incoherence.

He was like an actor in one of those plays from between the wars where everyone talks for a long time but very little happens.

In narration he affects a disproportionate pomp of diction and a wearisome train of circumlocution, and tells the incident imperfectly in many words, which might have been more plainly delivered in few.

D'autre part la langue écrite, la langue littéraire, surchargée, pompeuse, pâteuse, prétentieuse, gorgée de digressions ineptes, absconse, évasive, allusive, ne réussissait qu'à lui transmettre un vilain bruit et de vilaines évidences très mal formulées (Black Village p. 123)

Doesn´t she have diarrhea of the mouth?

People tended to be very spendthrift with their language, Kate had noticed. They used a lot more words than they needed to. She

People tended to be very spendthrift with their language, Kate had noticed. They used a lot more words than they needed to.

Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.

Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.

He was admired for never being at a loss for words and never wasting any either.