Brevity Quotes · Page 4

“The definition of Brevity: That which people believe would be a virtue - in me!”

— Greg Curtis

Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.

— Antonio Porchia

“Feel the brevity of life, and it will make you fully alive.”

— Tony Reinke

Let those who thoughtfully consider the brevity of life remember the length of eternity.

— Thomas Ken

My four articles of faith: clarity, simplicity, brevity and humanity.

— William Zinsser

Good similes depend upon close observation. They depend upon brevity and wit…They have to fit in context.

— James J. Kilpatrick

If human lives be, for their very brevity, sweet, then beast lives are sweeter still...

— Isobelle Carmody

I saw one excellency was within my reach - it was brevity and I determined to obtain it.

— John Jay

Everyone on Twitter - everyone on the Internet - seems so damn certain. Brevity doesn't allow for nuance, and it's a nice…

— Rumaan Alam

I'm a Ford, not a Lincoln. My addresses will never be as eloquent as Mr. Lincoln's. But I will do my very…

— Gerald R. Ford

“The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as…

— George Burns

A great many people who spend their time mourning over the brevity of life could make it seem longer if they did…

— Don Marquis

It is not a great Xerxes army of words, but a compact Greek ten thousand that march safely down to posterity.

— James Russell Lowell

“But brevity MAKES sweetness, doesn’t it? Yes, I think so. Because when the time is gone, you can never get it back.”

— Stephen King, 11/22/63

True brevity of expression consists in a man only saying what is worth saying, while avoiding all diffuse explanations of things which…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The land is not old. It only changes, becoming one thing and the next. We are the ones who ascribe age, the…

— Craig Childs

Honorable Senators: My sincerest thanks I offer you. Conserve the firm foundations of our institutions. Do your work with the spirit of…

— Calvin Coolidge

My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is…

— William Shakespeare

I confess to wincing every so often at a poorly chosen word, a mangled sentence, an expression of emotion that seems indulgent…

— Barack Obama

What is the real function, the essential function, the supreme function, of language? Isn't it merely to convey ideas and emotions? Certainly.…

— Mark Twain

Our senses perceive no extreme. Too much sound deafens us; too much light dazzles us; too great distance or proximity hinders ourview.…

— Blaise Pascal

“Lycurgus, who ordered that a great piece of money should be but of an inconsiderable value, on the contrary would allow no…

— Plutarch

The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomime!…

— Iris Murdoch

“This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, don't understand very…

— Stephen King

Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it?

— Stephen King

There is need of brevity, that the thought may run on.

— Horace

Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I've had orgasms lasting longer than our relationship.”

— Ahmed Mostafa

I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

— Blaise Pascal

Filter your pain through the brevity of this life and the unending beauty of the next.

— Max Lucado

“Grass of levity Span in brevity Flower's felicity Fire of misery Wind's stability Is mortality”

— compiled by John Timbs Anonymous

it is the brevity of life which makes it tolerable; its experiences have value because they have an end.

— Winifred Holtby

This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity.

— Brandon Sanderson

Brevity never fatigues; therefore, brevity is always a welcome guest.

— Theophile Gautier

“Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.”

— Jean de La Bruyère

Brevity may be the soul of wit, but not when someone's saying "I love you.

— Judith Viorst

The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy.

— William Penn

“Yeah shorten it. The original had an urgency that if you don’t practice creation, time will run out.”

— Dustin Lee

“I know you're scared, but doing something even though it scares you is the definition of brave.”

— Sarah Morgan

Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.

— Martial