53 Wordy Quotes
Following is our list of the most famous wordy quotations and slogans. We've compiled this selection of inspirational wordy quotes. Hopefully, these wordy quotes will keep you motivated not only during hard times but to expand your wordy knowledge!
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Famous Wordy Quotes
If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought. — Dennis Roch
He that uses many words for explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink. — John Ray
Too many words are lit for a beast of burden. — Yunus Emre
Words are like spices. Too many is worse than too few. — Joan Aiken
There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less. — William Faulkner
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Words have a longer life than deeds. — Pindar
Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds. — Sir Walter Raleigh
Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds. — Walter Raleigh
An expenditure of words without income of ideas will lead to intellectual bankruptcy. — Ravi Zacharias
The truth is few of verbs but the lie long of words. — Icelandic Proverbs
You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length. — Carl Friedrich Gauss
Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue. — Sinclair Lewis
A musician's attempt to summarize his or her work leads to all this prescriptive chatter, or what I call the Modifier's Madness. A lot of adjectives working overtime. — Sufjan Stevens
Many words are not proof of the wise man, because the sage only talk when it's needed, and the words are measured and corresponding with the need. — Thales
Short Wordy Quotes
- Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. — George Eliot
- Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed. — Kanye West
- Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact. — George Eliot
- I decline all noisy, wordy, confused, and personal controversies. — Josiah Warren
- Wordiness is a sickness of American writing. Too many words dilute and blur ideas. — Eric Hoffer
- I think it's OK that everyone's not real heavy and wordy and heady. — India.Arie
- I'm probably a bit too wordy for some people. — Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire
- It is bad for the soul to know itself a coward, it is apt to take refuge in mere wordy violence. — Radclyffe Hall
- The wordy tale, once told, were hard to tell again. — Homer
- Alan Moore's writing is almost novelistic. It's very intricate and wordy and smart. — Adrianne Palicki
People Writing About Wordy
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
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 George Eliot |
1009 | 5007 |
 John Ray |
84 | 547 |
 Yunus Emre |
12 | 367 |
 Joan Aiken |
11 | 117 |
 William Faulkner |
373 | 5506 |
 Dwight D. Eisenhower |
495 | 12151 |
More Wordy Quotes
I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of. — Camila Cabello
…and to all you other cats and chicks out there, sweet or otherwise, buried deep in wordy tombs, who never yet have walked from off the page, a shake and a hug and a kiss and a drink. Cheers! — Gilbert Sorrentino
Be not unwilling in what thou doest, neither selfish nor unadvised nor obstinate; let not over-refinement deck out thy thought; be not wordy nor a busybody. — Marcus Aurelius
Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed. I am not a fan of books ... I like to get information from doing stuff like actually talking to people and living real life. — Kanye West
If we were left solely to the wordy wit of legislators in Congress for our guidance, uncorrected by the seasonal experience and the effectual complaints of the people, America would not long retain her rank among the nations. — Henry David Thoreau
EVOO is extra-virgin olive oil. I first coined 'EVOO' on my cooking show because saying 'extra virgin olive oil' over and over was wordy, and I'm an impatient girl - that's why I make 30-minute meals! — Rachael Ray
over and over again I am struck by the wordiness of modern poetry, as if language had replaced experience and must be more and more extreme, intricate and in a way divorced from life itself. It seems as if what we all need is a great purification - but how will that come about? — May Sarton
You talk to me in parables. You may have known that I'm no wordy man, Fine speeches are the instruments of knaves Or fools that use them, when they want good sense; But honesty Needs no disguise nor ornament: be plain. — Thomas Otway
I had never thought of myself as a dramatist, and, for really good technical results, the thought came too late: a man of letters has become too wordy to write economically for the stage. — Laurence Housman
My process with starting a new project and whatnot is I begin around a title. Usually, based off of just a title, I'm able to put together themes and concepts from there. I've always admired Hunter S. Thompson's titles for his books. They're always wordy and pretty elaborate. — Alexander Spit
Chekhov used to correspond with aspiring writers, and once he gave this advice to Maxim Gorky when he was encouraging him to pare his wordy sentences: "When someone expends the least amount of motion on a given action, that's grace." The short story, by definition, embodies this notion of grace, because it requires such forceful compression to achieve its effects. — Catherine Brady
I've written a lot of wordy, erudite, pretentious songs, but believe it or not, I'm usually doing my damnedest to resist the temptation to be overly "clever," and trying to keep things as accessible - and singable - as possible. — Peter Blegvad
I am and will always be a HUGE Star Wars Geek and wanted to study film making. I really am not a fan of writing- I prefer storytelling and rather jump to storyboards to relay my vision then a lot of wordy words. — Holly Golightly
I have come to believe ... that the stage may do more than teach, that much of our current moral instruction will not endure the test of being cast into a lifelike mold, and when presented in dramatic form will reveal itself as platitudinous and effete. That which may have sounded like righteous teaching when it was remote and wordy, will be challenged afresh when it is obliged to simulate life itself. — Jane Addams
That which may have sounded like righteous teaching when it was remote and wordy, will be challenged afresh when it is obliged to simulate life itself. — Jane Addams
A lot of underground hip-hop will inspire me as far as rhyme patterns - really wordy, intelligent lyrics. — Travie McCoy
I seem to be the most wordy when it comes to monsters because I'm a bit of a monster freak. — Silvia Colloca
The cards are stacked (quite properly, I imagine) against all professional aesthetes, and no doubt we all deserve the dark, wordy, academic deaths we all sooner or later die. — J. D. Salinger
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