Quotes about Verbosity

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

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

It is positively because he is quick-witted that he is long-winded.

I have always revered not crude verbosity but holy simplicity.

The more one reads poetry, the less tolerant one becomes of any sort of verbosity, be that in political or philosophical discourse, be that in history, social studies or the art of fiction.

Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.