Verbose Speech Quotes

Every man should study conciseness in speaking; it is a sign of ignorance not to know that long speeches, though they may please the speaker, are the torture of the hearer.

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

As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is that of little minds to use many words to say nothing.

I'm unfortunately very verbose too often.

Here comes the orator with his flood of words and his drop or reason.

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

And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say.

Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.

He spoke in a big bow-wow style of oratory. His speeches leave the impression of an army of pompous phrases moving over the landscape in search of an idea. Sometimes these meandering words would actually capture a straggling thought and bear it triumphantly, a prisoner in their midst, until it died of servitude and overwork.

I don't like to repeat myself.

He was a guy who talked with commas, like a heavy novel. Over the phone anyway.

Length of saying makes languor of hearing.

I'll talk your ear off if you recognize me.

The disquieting thing about newscaster-babble or editorial-speak is its ready availability as a serf idiom, a vernacular of deference. "Mr. Secretary, are we any nearer to bringing about a dialogue in this process ?

I don't quite know why, but I am long-winded.

Next to fried foods, the South has suffered most from oratory.

I don't talk in sound bites.

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