Wordy Expression Quotes

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

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

A multitude of words doth rather obscure than illustrate, they being a burden to the memory, and the first apt to be forgotten, before we come to the last. So that he that uses many words for the explaining of any subject, doth, like the cuttle-fish, hide himself, for the most part, in his own ink.

You can suffocate a thought by expressing it with too many words.

He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.

Copiousness of words, however ranged, is always false eloquence, though it will ever impose on some sort of understandings.

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

Language rarely lies. It can reveal the insincerity of a writer's claims simply through a grating adjective or an inflated phrase. We come upon a frenzy of words and suspect it hides a paucity of feeling.

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