“The definition of Brevity: That which people believe would be a virtue - in me!” — Greg Curtis Copy Share Image
“After a brief moment of splendour, the whole enterprise too a sad turn.” — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
“The secret to good writing is to use small words for big ideas, not to use big words for small ideas.” — Oliver Markus Copy Share Image
My four articles of faith: clarity, simplicity, brevity and humanity. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Good similes depend upon close observation. They depend upon brevity and wit…They have to fit in context. — James J. Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity. — Antonio Porchia Copy Share Image
Let those who thoughtfully consider the brevity of life remember the length of eternity. — Thomas Ken Copy Share Image
If human lives be, for their very brevity, sweet, then beast lives are sweeter still... — Isobelle Carmody Copy Share Image
The land is not old. It only changes, becoming one thing and the next. We are the ones who ascribe age, the… — Craig Childs Copy Share Image
What can the redwoods tell us about ourselves? Well, I think they can tell us something about human time. The flickering, transitory… — Richard Preston Copy Share Image
“When someone blamed Hecataeus the sophist because that, being invited to the public table, he had not spoken one word all supper-time,… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
True brevity of expression consists in a man only saying what is worth saying, while avoiding all diffuse explanations of things which… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
A sentence well couched takes both the sense and understanding. I love not those cart-rope speeches that are longer than the memory… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
Poetry is like a portrait of a moment or person, and the poem is almost like looking at a photograph; it slaps… — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
Children should not be coddled in their intellectual training any more than in their physical; and though the studies should be made… — Arthur Lynch Copy Share Image
It is not merely the brevity by which the haiku isolates a particular group of phenomena from all the rest; nor its… — Reginald Horace Blyth Copy Share Image
Our senses perceive no extreme. Too much sound deafens us; too much light dazzles us; too great distance or proximity hinders ourview.… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomime!… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Usually at the end of each story we're thrown clear out of the story's world and then we're given a new world… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
My great grandfather used to say to his wife, my great-grandmother, who in turn told her daughter, my grandmother, who repeated it… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
I saw one excellency was within my reach - it was brevity and I determined to obtain it. — John Jay Copy Share Image
Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it? — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Brevity never fatigues; therefore, brevity is always a welcome guest. — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
“Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.” — Jean de La Bruyère Copy Share Image
The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. — William Penn Copy Share Image
“Grass of levity Span in brevity Flower's felicity Fire of misery Wind's stability Is mortality” — compiled by John Timbs Anonymous Copy Share Image
Filter your pain through the brevity of this life and the unending beauty of the next. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
it is the brevity of life which makes it tolerable; its experiences have value because they have an end. — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity. — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter." ( Letter 16 , 1657)” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Yeah shorten it. The original had an urgency that if you don’t practice creation, time will run out.” — Dustin Lee Copy Share Image
“I know you're scared, but doing something even though it scares you is the definition of brave.” — Sarah Morgan Copy Share Image
“The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as… — George Burns Copy Share Image
“for in history there is nothing more pleasing than clear and brilliant brevity.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Great captains do never use long orations when it comes to the point of execution. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
“I have already made this paper too long, for which I must crave pardon, not having now time to make it shorter.” — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
