Quotes About Verbose

Concision in art is a necessity and an elegance. The verbose painter bores: who will get rid of all these trimmings?

Listening to a sermonizer who above all loves to hear himself sermonize is about as much fun as having your toes sheared off

Foot-and-a-half-long words.

When I'm nervous I have this thing yeah I talk too much. Sometimes I just can't shut the hell up.

The way to become boring is to say everything.

I cannot keep from talking, even at the risk of being instructive.

I can talk the hind leg off a donkey.

Sometimes I think you can look at a person and know they are full of words.

There are few things in life worse than a long-winded lawyer.

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

Old men are garrulous by nature.

Hamilton, [Melancton Smith] said, spoke 'frequently, very long, and very vehemently,' and 'like publius,' had 'much to say' that was 'not very applicable to the subject' at hand.