Verbose Quotes
15 quotes by 13 authors
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Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel, verbose, a showoff. I have been called all of these. Of course, I am.
— Howard Cosell
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Conciseness in art is essential and a refinement. The concise man makes one think; the verbose bores. Always work towards conciseness.
— Edouard Manet
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Concision in art is a necessity and an elegance. The verbose painter bores: who will get rid of all these trimmings?
— Edouard Manet
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Verbose is not a synonym for literary.
— Constance Hale
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Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
— Bjarne Stroustrup
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We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused - in place of the…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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All was there-the programme of German resurrection, the technique of party propaganda; the plan for combating Marxism; the concept of a National-Socialist State; the rightful…
— Winston Churchill
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I'm unfortunately very verbose too often.
— Josh Gad
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A verbose, prosaic review which mentions whistling winds and the timeless feeling of jade doesn't mean anything to me; I don't need a novella telling…
— David Cross
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Revolutions are always verbose.
— Leon Trotsky
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Symbolism and meaning are two separate things. I think she found the right words by bypassing procedures like meaning and logic. She captured words in…
— Haruki Murakami
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Artists are those who can evade the verbose.
— Haruki Murakami
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I believe that all novels, ... deal with character, and that it is to express character – not to preach doctrines, sing songs, or celebrate…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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A politician is a man who can be verbose in fewer words than anyone else.
— Peter De Vries
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You've been talking, I've been all ears, Omerta. Cheaply venal, stupidly verbose. A slip of the tongue, a slit of the throat.
— Lamb Of God
Who Wrote These Verbose Quotes
13 authors contributed a total of 15 Verbose Quotes as follows: