...when a sentence is made stronger, it usually becomes shorter. Thus, brevity is a by-product of vigor. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The little things are what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity. — Antonio Porchia Copy Share Image
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Even in our best shape we are a brittle piece of mortality. Your life is a breath, don't waste it. — LeCrae Copy Share Image
All pleasantry should be short; and it might even be as well were the serious short also. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Through an arbitrary problem, I had arrived at a tenet of good writing: brevity wins. — Michael Winter Copy Share Image
Why the brevity? Because I'd rather people read my book twice than only half-way through — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there… — Martial Copy Share Image
The trick to writing an aphorism is to place a period at the point where you're inclined to say, "in other words… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
youth, balancing itself upon hope, is forever in extremes: its expectations are continually aroused only to be baffled, and disappointment, like a… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon 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
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 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
It is not a great Xerxes army of words, but a compact Greek ten thousand that march safely down to posterity. — James Russell Lowell 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
Given the brevity of our time here, it does seem likely that our species, too, must have at best a blinkered understanding… — Karen Russell 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
"What is the greatest surprise you have found about life?" a university student asked me several years ago. "The brevity of it,"… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
My biggest poetic influences are probably 20th-century British and Irish poets. So I suppose I'm always listening for the music I associate… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
Realize that illness and other temporal setbacks often come to us from the hand of God our Lord, and are sent to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face. ... It is no great… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Our senses will not admit anything extreme. Too much noise confuses us, too much light dazzles us, too great distance or nearness… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Brevity is the soul of command. Too much talking suggests desperation on the part of the leader. Speak shortly, decisively and to… — Cyrus the Great Copy Share Image
We think that play and fairytales belong to childhood - how shortsighted that is! As though we would want at any time… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
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
That a thing made by hand, the work and thought of a single craftsman, can endure much longer than its maker, through… — Susan Vreeland Copy Share Image
There came to him an image of man’s whole life upon the earth. It seemed to him that all man’s life was… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
Breath and brevity are sisters; the long-winded is an enemy who muffles your heartbeat. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Many things prevent knowledge, including the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life — Protagoras Copy Share Image
