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What is an Epigram? A dwarfish whole,Its body brevity, and wit its soul. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
And there is a beauty that brevity alone provides.
— Cassandra Clare
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
You evidently feel that brevity is the soul of widowhood.
— Hector Hugh Munro
Brevity is the soul of wit.
— Alexander Pope
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
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
Brevity in writing is very powerful
— Lance Greenfield
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
Brevity in writing is the best insurance for its perusal.
— Rudolf Virchow
It is the brevity of life which makes it tolerable; its experiences have value because they have an end.
— Winifred Holtby
Brevity is pivotal to clarity.
— Suyog Ketkar
Brevity never fatigues; therefore, brevity is always a welcome guest.
— Theophile Gautier
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
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
To write good poems is the secret of brevity.
— Dejan Stojanovic
A novel is just a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.
— George Saunders
The single most frustrating and saddening aspect of human life is its shocking brevity.
— Sean DeLauder
When a sentence is made stronger, it usually becomes shorter. Thus, brevity is a by-product of vigor.
— William Strunk Jr.
Clarity of thought is a must for brevity in speech.
— Somali K Chakrabarti
This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.
— Rudyard Kipling
If brevity is the soul of wit then brevity and levity are the whole of it.
— Michael R. Burch
Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
— Dorothy Parker
I know you're scared, but doing something even though it scares you is the definition of brave.
— Sarah Morgan
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
Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
The lesson here is not to take Camus to the beach.
— Leo X. Robertson
Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.
— Shirley Conran
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
Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination.
— Louise Brooks