Quotes About Verbosity

It is positively because he is quick-witted that he is long-winded.

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

'Candida' was difficult: stimulating but very wordy.

I had never thought of myself as a dramatist, and, for really good technical results, the thought came too late: a man of letters has become too wordy to write economically for the stage.

I have always revered not crude verbosity but holy simplicity.

degradó cuando aquéllos, que recibían salarios de acuerdo al número de palabras que usaban en sus peroratas, empezaron a hinchar sus discursos para ganar más.

When Jim Donell thought of something to say he said it as often and in as many ways as possible, perhaps because he had very few ideas and had to wring each one dry.

He that uses many words for the explaining any subject doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink.

And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say.

I think I'm someone who can prattle on a long time about something, which serves me well as a novelist, but it's the enemy when I'm writing short stories.

Make no mistake, those who write long books have nothing to say. Of course those who write short books have even less to say.

If a thing can be said in ten words, I may be relied upon to take a hundred to say it. I ought to apologize for that. I ought to prune, pare and extirpate excess growth, but I will not. I like words—strike that, I love words—and while I am fond of the condensed and economical use of them in poetry, in song lyrics, in Twitter, in good journalism and smart advertising, I love the luxuriant profusion and mad scatter of them too.

He that speaks much is much mistaken.

Rambling speeches and bad writing litter our lives. If talk is cheap, it's because the supply usually exceeds the demand.

Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about.

The Georgian had used more words in 5 minutes than Wyatt had spoken during 1872 and 1873 combined.

Adam Freedman points out in his book on legalese, "What distinguishes legal boilerplate is its combination of archaic terminology and frenzied verbosity, as though it were written by a medieval scribe on crack.

People with nothing to say tend to go into public speaking.

Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.

There are men everywhere who talk and talk, saying nothing. I am afraid I am becoming one of that kind.

My scripts are possibly too talkative. Sometimes I watch a scene I've written, and occasionally I think, 'Oh, for God's sake, shut up.'

I have never written a letter in my life.

How intense can be the longing to escape from the emptiness and dullness of human verbosity, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate, or in the wordlessness of long, grinding labour, of sound sleep, of true music, or of a human understanding rendered speechless by emotion!