Best Verbosity Quotes

#1. I've been asked over the years to compile a list of desert-island discs. I couldn't do that. If I was trapped on a desert island, I don't think I'd want 10 songs to bring with me.

John Lydon

#2. The efficiency of the cleaning solution in liquefying wizards suggested the operation of an antithetical principal,which-"
"Did you have to get him started?" Cimorene asked reproachfully.

Patricia C. Wrede

#3. A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.

Benjamin Disraeli

#4. To be relieved of love, she thought, was to give up a terrible burden.

Anita Shreve

#5. Wish I had ten hands. I want to touch you everywhere while I'm doing this.

Pepper Winters

#6. I hoped our lives would continue this way forever, but inevitably the past came knocking. Not the good kind that was collectible but the bad kind that had arthritis.

David Sedaris

#7. You have a faculty for defining the simplest in terms of the grandiose, so that a poor devil like me can't understand it.

Malcolm Bradbury

#8. I lost my ability to will things to happen.

Tiger Woods

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

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#10. Learning and sex until rigor mortis.

Maggie Kuhn

#11. Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

Dan C. Quayle

#12. Circumlocution," said Mr. Croup to Mr. Vandemar. "It's a way of speaking around something. A digression. Verbosity.

Neil Gaiman

#13. Network: Any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections [ ... ]
Reticulated: Made of network; formed with interstitial vacuities.

Samuel Johnson

#14. Bouldering isn't really a sport. It's a climbing activity with metaphysical, mystical, and philosophical overtones. -John Gill-

Jon Krakauer

#15. 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.

Ludwig Von Mises

#16. I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any field of human activity.

Charles Edison

#17. Let's do, let's get some handles. I don't know why I'm talking about this stuff. Look, I love you and I miss you and you're doing the right thing. It's costing you too, I know that. I'm here and I'll be here whenever you come home, or I'll meet you anywhere, anytime. That's what.

Thomas Harris

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

William Shakespeare

#19. 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.

Benjamin Disraeli

#20. Verbosity is the enemy of eloquence.

Rebecca M. Douglass

#21. The prevailin' weakness of most public men is to Slop Over! ... G. Washington never slopt over.

Artemas Ward

#22. I like the one about the little soulworms that fly out of the nest for the resurrection.

Henry Miller

#23. Our language, once homely and colloquial, seeks to aggrandize our meanest activities with polysyllabic terms or it retreats from frankness into a stammering verbosity.

Mary McCarthy

#24. A hard core life I toast to ex flaw, therefore I live raw and went to war wit the law.

Big L

#25. There is no reason for verbosity in the olfactory world. Less is more.

Adria J. Cimino

#26. why should I demand of Fortune that she give rather than demand of myself that I should not crave?

Seneca.

#27. In his humble opinion, she possessed the least appealing traits a woman can put on display: undiscriminating curiosity and nonsensical verbosity.

Carol Vorvain

#28. As for me ... I'm fine. I have bad dreams, but I never saw Mister Duck again. I play video games. I smoke a little dope. I got my thousand-yard stare. I carry a lot of scares. I like the way that sounds. I carry a lot of scares.

Alex Garland

#29. I think I have broken into the mainstream, and I think that may happen in a broader way, but I want to do it on my own terms, not become a standard producer.

Joe R. Lansdale

#30. Verbosity was an established Victorian trait.

Matthew Engel

#31. When a writer tries to explain too much, he's out of time before he begins.

Isaac Bashevis Singer