"While Nape was making the bread and Dryas boiling the ram, Daphnis and Chloe had time to go forth as far as the ivy-bush; and when he had set his snares again and pricked his lime-twigs, they not only..."
- Longus (Longos)
"When a writer tries to explain too much, he's out of time before he begins."
- Isaac Bashevis Singer
"You have a faculty for defining the simplest in terms of the grandiose, so that a poor devil like me can't understand it."
- Malcolm Bradbury
"People who talk too much are tiresome, especially those who are not informative, thought-provoking, or funny."
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"The efficiency of the cleaning solution in liquefying wizards suggested the operation of an antithetical principal,which-" "Did you have to get him started?" Cimorene asked reproachfully."
- Patricia C. Wrede