Brevity may be the soul of wit, but not when someone's saying "I love you. — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. — William Penn Copy Share Image
Brevity never fatigues; therefore, brevity is always a welcome guest. — Theophile Gautier 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
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
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
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
“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
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 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
“Storytelling is shaped by two contrary, yet complementary, impulses—one toward brevity, compactness, artful omission; the other toward expansion, amplification, enrichment.” — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
If, in the very intense electric field in the neighbourhood of the cathode, the molecules of the gas are dissociated and are… — Joseph John Thomson Copy Share Image
The art of reasoning becomes of first importance. In this line antiquity has left us the finest models for imitation; I should… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Folk melodies are the embodiment of an artistic perfection of the highest order; in fact, they are models of the way in… — Bela Bartok 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
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
The public, as a whole, finds reassurance in longevity, and, after the necessary interlude of reaction, is disposed to recognize extreme old… — Vita Sackville-West 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
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
If human lives be, for their very brevity, sweet, then beast lives are sweeter still... — Isobelle Carmody 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
I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“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 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
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 Copy Share Image
I confess to wincing every so often at a poorly chosen word, a mangled sentence, an expression of emotion that seems indulgent… — Barack Obama 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
“Lycurgus, who ordered that a great piece of money should be but of an inconsiderable value, on the contrary would allow no… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
