Verbosity Quotes
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A sophistical rhetoricianinebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.
— 1878 Of Gladstone. Speech reported in The Times, 29 Jul.
Gertrude Stein, all courage and will, is a soldier of minimalism. Her work, unlike the resonating silences in the art of Samuel Beckett, embodies in its loquacity and verbosity the curious paradox of the minimalist form. This art of the nuance in repetition and placement she shares with the orchestral compositions of Philip Glass.
elizabeth hardwick— "Gertrude Stein" (p. 103)
A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that who can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and glorify himself.
benjamin disraeli— On William Ewart Gladstone at a banquet in Riding School, Knightsbridge (27 July 1878), quoted in The Times (29 July 1879) and again cited in Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, Collected from his Writings and Speeches (1881), p. 149.
In some places he draws the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
— Dr. Porson, of Gibbon's Decline and Fall, quoted in the Letters to Travis.
A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.
— Benjamin Disraeli, speech at the Riding School, London (July 27, 1878) (of Gladstone).
He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
— William Shakespeare, in Love's Labours Lost Scene I
He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
— Holofernes, scene i
