Prolixity Quotes

Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits, dinners, concerts, plays, speeches, pleadings, essays, sermons, are too long. Pleasure and business labor equally under this defect, or, as I should rather say, this fatal super-abundance.

A gentleman that loves to hear himself talk, will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.

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

In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it.

Loquacity with tongue or pen is its own reward -- or, punishment.

Henry James was our master of periphrasis -- the fine art of saying as little as possible in the greatest number of words.

It is a foolish thing to make a long prologue and be short in the story itself.

I would feel weird if I wasn't able to be longwinded, or have information-overload on our songs.

There is such a torture, happily unknown to ancient tyranny, as talking a man to death. Marcus Aurelius advises to assent readily to great talkers--in hopes, I suppose, to put an end to the argument.

A recent government publication on the marketing of cabbage contains, according to one report, 26,941 words. It is noteworthy in this regard that the Gettysburg Address contains a mere 279 words while the Lord's Prayer comprises but 67.