Verbosity is the enemy of eloquence.

Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

— Anonymous

“You should really restrict these flights of fancy to your fiction, where I can redline them on grounds of verbosity and excessive allusion.”

— M. Pierce

“He gave me a look of great contempt; as I supposed, for venturing, even by implication, to draw a parallel between a lack of…

— Anthony Powell

Our language, once homely and colloquial, seeks to aggrandize our meanest activities with polysyllabic terms or it retreats from frankness into a stammering verbosity.

— Mary McCarthy

I unintentionally slaughter sacred cows in public venues and speak my mind even when I have lost it. I often open my mouth just…

— Rock Cowles

“You have a faculty for defining the simplest in terms of the grandiose, so that a poor devil like me can't understand it.”

— Malcolm Bradbury

Verbosity was an established Victorian trait.

— Matthew Engel

“Your father had other plans for you. Alas, his breakdown and untimely demise derailed everything he'd worked to accomplish. He would not approve of…

— Laird Barron

“While I did that, my own eyes got wet, not fakely, and I blinked the wetness away because it was not my privilege to…

— Adam Levin

“While Nape was making the bread and Dryas boiling the ram, Daphnis and Chloe had time to go forth as far as the ivy-bush;…

— Longus (Longos

Sesquipedalian verbosity is just another notion of challenging the zenith mind.

— Jasmina Siderovski

“Long-bodied, long-worded Johnny cocked an ear. "A tintamarrous bombilation!" he remarked. "Sounds more like a fight to me," Monk muttered. Ham said, "That, short-and-hairy,…

— Kenneth Robeson

I also try to discipline myself when I get into a situation... and I'm trying to think of an answer, instead of being verbose,…

— Dan Quayle

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

— William Shakespeare

The more one reads poetry, the less tolerant one becomes of any sort of verbosity, be that in political or philosophical discourse, be that…

— Joseph Brodsky