Quotes About Verbosity

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

A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.

Those who have few things to attend to are great babblers; for the less men think, the more they talk.

He talks at the drop of a pause.

You (Pindar) who possessed the talent of speaking much without saying anything.

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

...you've heard how short, concise, and compendious he is in his Answers? Nothing is to be got out of him but Monosyllables? by Jingo, I believe he would make three Bites of a Cherry.

One reason some people are long-winded is because they're trying to impress their conversational counterpart with how smart they are, often because they don't actually feel that way underneath. If this is the case for you, realize that continuing to talk will only cause the other person to be less impressed.

A wise person is silent and rarely wants to show his wisdom. A fool is always vocal and uses every opportunity to show his foolishness.

Now begins a torrent of words and a trickling of sense.

The doctor had asked him about the source of his anger, and Allander had exploded in a fit of verbosity. "So, Doctor," Allander had replied, "if that is what we can call you—you're certainly not a healer, but that's a different tale, isn't it? You'd like to know the source of my anger? I can speak your tongue. See if you can keep up.

And that's why people no longer care which words they use as long as they use lots of them.

today people use as many words as they can and think themselves very wise for doing so, For always remember that while it is wrong to use too few, it is often far worse to use too many.

sesquipedalian bushwa.

Fie, what a spendthrift is he of his tongue!

Nothing is so tiring to the reader as excavating nuggets of meaning from mountains of words.

I am worn out with civility. I have been talking incessantly all night with nothing to say.

We live in the age of mass loquacity.We are all writing it or at any rate talking it: the memoir, the apologia, the c.v., the cri de coeur.

I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.

If you want to say something clever, you have only to talk long enough.

What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.

Instead he showed up once a week, blathered on for hours using the biggest, most made-up words possible, and then slithered back to his lab, leaving all of us even dumber than we were before.

Henry James was our master of periphrasis -- the fine art of saying as little as possible in the greatest number of words.