Verbiage Quotes
11 quotes by 11 authors
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The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance, mere verbiage and…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Make your novel readable. Make it easy to read, pleasant to read. This doesn't mean flowery passages, ambitious flights of pyrotechnic verbiage; it means strong,…
— Laurence D'Orsay
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Bill Clinton pandered by telling you what you wanted to hear. John Kerry panders by never telling you what you don't want to hear. This…
— David Brooks
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I've been accused of being a minimalist writer. I don't like a lot of verbiage in there.
— Kathy Reichs
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Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like secret agents on…
— Quentin Crisp
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I'm not well versed on the verbiage of the internet.
— Larry Hagman
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The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and…
— Paul Valery
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When I was a younger man, art was a lonely thing. No galleries, no collectors, no critics, no money. Yet, it was a golden age,…
— Mark Rothko
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[Six principles that make for a good story:] 1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of a political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful descriptions of persons…
— Anton Chekhov
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Now, I've always known that there were bullies in the world. We've seen a lot of it in politics lately as well as in daily…
— Whoopi Goldberg
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Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like secret agents on…
— Quentin Cris
Who Wrote These Verbiage Quotes
11 authors contributed a total of 11 Verbiage Quotes as follows: