Brevity Quotes
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Brevity Quotes & Sayings
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What is an Epigram? A dwarfish whole,
Its body brevity, and wit its soul. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Its body brevity, and wit its soul. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If you can't explain something in a few words, try fewer.
— Robert Breault
And there is a beauty that brevity alone provides.
— Cassandra Clare
Many things prevent knowledge, including the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life
— Protagoras
Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.
— Antonio Porchia
Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none. This above all: to thine own self be true. No legacy is so rich as honesty. Brevity is the soul of wit
— William Shakespeare
I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity.
— Mohsin Hamid
Ursula declined, fearing enchantment.
— Kate Atkinson
You evidently feel that brevity is the soul of widowhood.
— Hector Hugh Munro
Brevity did not mean inconsequence...
— Piers Anthony
Brevity is the soul of wit.
— Alexander Pope
I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
(Letter 16, 1657) — Blaise Pascal
(Letter 16, 1657) — Blaise Pascal
If human lives be,
for their very brevity, sweet,
then beast lives are sweeter still ... — Isobelle Carmody
for their very brevity, sweet,
then beast lives are sweeter still ... — Isobelle Carmody
Because of the brevity of life, the Bible warns that we should be prepared to meet God at all times.
— Billy Graham
Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,
— William Shakespeare
Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.
— Hosea Ballou
In the pleading of cases nothing pleases so much as brevity.
— Pliny The Younger
At our noblest we announce to the darkness that we will not be diminished by the brevity of our lives.
— Cormac McCarthy
Screenwriting is made of brevity.
— A.D. Posey
The greatest surprise in life to me is the brevity of life.
— Billy Graham
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Brevity: To say at once whatever is to be said.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity.
— Brandon Sanderson
Life in all its brevity deserved to be lived, for the right reasons. Belonging Places.
— M.R. Weston
To Dewey, if brevity was the soul of wit, stagecraft was the very center of politics.
— David Pietrusza
Brevity in writing is very powerful
— Lance Greenfield
Let us return to 'no'. It has the charm of brevity.
— Sharon Lee
What poet's persuasion can reconcile the length of those days with the brevity of life?
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
— Horace
Brevity is pivotal to clarity.
— Suyog Ketkar
To write good poems is the secret of brevity.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.
— Shirley Conran
But I hasten to finish my story. Brevity is justified at once to those who readily understand, and to those who will never understand.
— George Eliot
The old, slow, creaking descriptions are a thing of the past; today the rule is brevity - but every word must be supercharged, high-voltage.
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
It is the brevity of life which makes it tolerable; its experiences have value because they have an end.
— Winifred Holtby
A parsimony of words prodigal of sense.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Be sincere, Be brief, Be seated.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Brevity in writing is the best insurance for its perusal.
— Rudolf Virchow
My four articles of faith: clarity, simplicity, brevity and humanity.
— William Zinsser
From her character in the HBO miniseries: The art of politics is the art of applying the seat of the britches to the seat of the chair.
— Abigail Adams
O Weep No More For
Me When I Am Gone! — Timothy Salter
Me When I Am Gone! — Timothy Salter
I am, sir. It is my way - it always was my way, by instinct - ever to meet the brief with brevity, the direct with plainness.
— Charlotte Bronte
It was almost funny. Life seemed downright accidental in its brevity, and death a punch line to a lousy joke.
— Maureen Johnson
Through an arbitrary problem, I had arrived at a tenet of good writing: brevity wins.
— Michael Winter
Jurists, with rare exceptions, are unconsciously and tenaciously averse to clarity and brevity.
— Gianrico Carofiglio
Brevity never fatigues; therefore, brevity is always a welcome guest.
— Theophile Gautier
Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination.
— Louise Brooks
Why the brevity? Because I'd rather people read my book twice than only half-way through
— Mohsin Hamid
The old notion that brevity is the essence of wit has succumbed to the modern idea that tedium is the essence of quality.
— Russell Baker
This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.
— Rudyard Kipling
No sooner did we start than it all came to an end.
— Ahmed Mostafa
The lesson here is not to take Camus to the beach.
— Leo X. Robertson
Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.
— Edsger Dijkstra
The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as close together as possible.
— George Burns
Let those who thoughtfully consider the brevity of life remember the length of eternity.
— Thomas Ken
Brevity - the sister of talent.
— Anton Chekhov
I know you're scared, but doing something even though it scares you is the definition of brave.
— Sarah Morgan
Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
— Dorothy Parker
If brevity is the soul of wit then brevity and levity are the whole of it.
— Michael R. Burch
I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story.
— Annie Proulx
Roxy had once called him the Pussy Whisperer, and it had kind of stuck. For the sake of brevity, though, they simply called him P-Dub.
— Tessa Bailey
The next message was from Roy Lindell. He also followed the standard of brevity. All right, asshole, I've got something for you. Call me.
— Michael Connelly
We both felt that the chief virtue of an interpreter consists in clarity combined with brevity. And
— John Calvin
Clarity of thought is a must for brevity in speech.
— Somali K Chakrabarti
The more you say, the less people remember.
— Francois Fenelon
When a sentence is made stronger, it usually becomes shorter. Thus, brevity is a by-product of vigor.
— William Strunk Jr.
The single most frustrating and saddening aspect of human life is its shocking brevity.
— Sean DeLauder
Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.
— Jean De La Bruyere
Good similes depend upon close observation. They depend upon brevity and wit ... They have to fit in context.
— James J. Kilpatrick
A novel is just a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.
— George Saunders
No weapons are more potent than brevity and simplicity.
— Katherine Cecil Thurston
Brevity takes time.
— William Wren
For the sake of brevity, we will always represent this number 2.718281828459 ... by the letter e.
— Leonhard Euler
The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson