Quotes About Verbosity

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

Isaac Bashevis Singer

#2. Verbosity was an established Victorian trait.

Matthew Engel

#3. The stratosphere is my church.

John Perry Barlow

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

Carol Vorvain

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

Adria J. Cimino

#6. I'd never heard of Robert Hellenga; I didn't think a book with the name 'Snakewoman of Little Egypt' would hold any appeal for me at all.

Carolyn See

#7. Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.

William Shakespeare

#8. 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

#9. When it comes time to die, you will not be afraid. By meditating, you will have already seen beyond life and death and you will see there is nothing to fear.

Frederick Lenz

#10. The thing I love about live performance the most, is that the doors are closed, the lights are turned down, and the audience has to be reverential to what's happening onstage.

Cate Blanchett

#11. Verbosity is the enemy of eloquence.

Rebecca M. Douglass

#12. I'm your worst damn nightmare, Skeletor. I'm a vampire killer with fangs and a grudge.

Rachel Caine

#13. Growth is a slow process and so is change in behaviour. The therapist must be patient with the process.

Garry L. Landreth

#14. 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

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

William Shakespeare

#16. 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

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Neil Gaiman

#19. Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

Dan C. Quayle

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

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#21. Son, you need to look through the scope at the things that are far away, but you also need to take your eye away long enough to see what's close.

Bob Goff

#22. 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

#23. Basketball has consumed me since the age of 7 or 8. I don't know what I would do without it.

Rick Pitino

#24. No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God's will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.

Oswald Chambers

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

Benjamin Disraeli

#26. 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