Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things. - Dan Quayle
He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. - William Shakespeare
Do not fight verbosity with words: speech is given to all, intelligence to few. - Moralia
A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself. - Maurice Edelman