Verbose Expression Quotes

He spoke with more eloquence than wisdom.

If a thing can be said in ten words, I may be relied upon to take a hundred to say it. I ought to apologize for that. I ought to prune, pare and extirpate excess growth, but I will not. I like words—strike that, I love words—and while I am fond of the condensed and economical use of them in poetry, in song lyrics, in Twitter, in good journalism and smart advertising, I love the luxuriant profusion and mad scatter of them too.

One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you're maybe a little bit ashamed of your short ones. This is like dressing up a household pet in evening clothes. The pet is embarrassed and the person who committed this act of premeditated cuteness should be even more embarrassed.

I don't like to repeat myself.

The more learned a writer, the more digression beckons him.

Wishes run over in loquacious impotence, will presses on with laconic energy.

To conceal a want of real ideas, many make for themselves an imposing apparatus of long compound words, intricate flourishes and phrases, new and unheard-of expressions, all of which together furnish an extremely difficult jargon that sounds very learned. Yet with all this they say-precisely nothing.

I'm a prolific overanalyzer. And I can always use 15 words in place of three 3, no matter what.

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

PLEONASM, n. An army of words escorting a corporal of thought.