Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech. — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Favorite books and authors while growing up - I'd need a book to list them all. For the sake of brevity: Shakespeare,… — Lloyd Alexander 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
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
“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 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
Against the censurers of brevity. - Something said briefly can be the fruit of much long thought: but the reader who is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Through an arbitrary problem, I had arrived at a tenet of good writing: brevity wins. — Michael Winter 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
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
Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator. — Marcus Tullius Cicero 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
Brevity never fatigues; therefore, brevity is always a welcome guest. — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
“The words are few, and the sentence short; no one in Scripture so short. But it fareth with Sentences as with coynes… — Lancelot Andrewes 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
Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand… — Maxine Hong Kingston 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
