The old notion that brevity is the essence of wit has succumbed to the modern idea that tedium is the essence of… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
“A novel is just a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.” — George Saunders Copy Share Image
If brevity is the soul of wit then brevity and levity are the whole of it. — Michael R. Burch Copy Share Image
If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
“I love what I see because one day I will cease to see it. And simply because it is.” — Ricardo Reis Copy Share Image
This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
...when a sentence is made stronger, it usually becomes shorter. Thus, brevity is a by-product of vigor. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Necessary, since every moment in our lives is marked by death, like a shadow from another realm, it appear to us like… — Andre Comte-Sponville Copy Share Image
As touching the gods, I do not know whether they exist or not, nor how they are featured; for there is much… — Protagoras Copy Share Image
It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
There are risks in the sheer brevity of Twitter, and it's actually quite an elegant art reducing what you have to say… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“But I hasten to finish my story. Brevity is justified at once to those who readily understand, and to those who will… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Everyone on Twitter - everyone on the Internet - seems so damn certain. Brevity doesn't allow for nuance, and it's a nice… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
A great many people who spend their time mourning over the brevity of life could make it seem longer if they did… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
When we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I yearn to live and love and burn, and yet so much of my time is spent faking and forgetting, faking and… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
On the geological time scale, a human lifetime is reduced to a brevity that is too inhibiting to think about deep time.… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
“We have deemed all these words necessary in order to explain that we have been traveling more slowly than was predicted, concision… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
Our hearts, they need a mirror, Tessa. We see our better selves in the eyes of those who love us. And there… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
We find that the manager, particularly at senior levels, is overburdened with work. With the increasing complexity of modern organizations and their… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The word itself has another color. It’s not a word with any resonance, although the e was once pronounced. There is only… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
As a writer, I'm too busy and worried to experience the delight while composing my own work, although, of course, I hope… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
