Quotes About Verbosity

Since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.

O, they have lived long on the alms-basket of words. I marvel thy master hath not eaten thee for a word; for thou art not so long by the head as honorificabilitudinitatibus: thou art easier swallowed than a flap-dragon.

the trouble was he had nothing to say, but he loved saying it.

I like to talk. I admit it.

Verbose is not a synonym for literary.

heed Hugh Blair, a very emeritus Edinburgh professor whose advice from 1783 has stood the test of more than two centuries: "Remember . . . every Audience is ready to tire; and the moment they begin to tire, all our Eloquence goes for nothing. A loose and verbose manner never fails to disgust . . . better [to say] too little, than too much.

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

The more a man is given to sentiment ,the more likely is he to be wordy and to speak well.

Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

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

Adept as he was in the Hegelian dialectic — a system easy of abuse by those who seek to dominate thought by arbitrary flights of fancy and metaphysical verbosity — he was not slow in finding a way out of the dilemma in which socialists found themselves.

He talked with more claret than clarity

I talk a lot, and that is probably exhausting.

I detest so much ... those persons, who insist upon telling you everything - who labor every point, as the lawyers say, as if they thought all excellence consisted in length.

A yawning repetitiveness as of a man who knows few words but will not stop talking.

Some people speak a lot, but have very little to say. Some people speak very little, but have very much to say.

People who talk too much are tiresome, especially those who are not informative, thought-provoking, or funny.

No woman answereth an important question in less than eleven score words.

Verbosity was an established Victorian trait.

A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

Ironically, those with the least to say usually say the most and the most outwardly religious were often the most theologically unsophisticated.

everybody understanding that nine-tenths of what came out of his mouth was blah-blah

What orators lack in depth, they make up to you in length.

Do not fight verbosity with words: speech is given to all, intelligence to few.