Brevity Quote by Benjamin Disraeli Download Open image “A parsimony of words prodigal of sense.” — Benjamin Disraeli ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Brevity Language Parsimony Prodigals
Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath israrely found. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“Contrary to what is generally believed, meaning and sense were never the same thing, meaning shows itself at once, direct, literal, explicit, enclosed in itself, univocal, if you like, while sense cannot stay still, it seethes with second, third and fourth senses, radiating out in different directions that divide and subdivide into branches and branchlets, until they disappear from view,… — José Saramago Copy Share
“To satisfy themselves with this, they gladly grasp at words, especially those which denote indefinite, very abstract, and unusual concepts difficult to explain, such,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Product of a myriad various minds and contending tongues, compact of obscure and minute association, a language has its own abundant and often recondite… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
“Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own aristocratic titles, their own plebeian stigmas.” — José Saramago Copy Share Image
a single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
In the end, it is my belief, words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense. — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
One must know and recognize not merely the direct but the secret power of the word. — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
Next to the assumption of power was the responsibility of relinquishing it. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
It shows you exactly how a star is formed; nothing else can be so pretty! A cluster of vapor, the cream of the milky… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Religion should be the rule of life, not a casual incident in it. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
I was told that the privileged and the people formed two nations. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel. — Benjamin Disraeli 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
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
If, in the very intense electric field in the neighbourhood of the cathode, the molecules of the gas are dissociated and are split up,… — Joseph John Thomson 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 prevents vision,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions and guiles,… — Jack Vance 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 possible words,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
A drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. — William Strunk, Jr 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 dividing of… — Walter Pater 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 of human… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
