Brevity Quotes
86 Brevity quotes by 71 unique authors
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Against the censurers of brevity. - Something said briefly can be the fruit of much long thought: but the reader who is a novice in…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The greatest surprise in life to me is the brevity of life.
— Billy Graham
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Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.
— Edsger Dijkstra
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When I struggle to be terse, I end by being obscure.
— Horace
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The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The art of reasoning becomes of first importance. In this line antiquity has left us the finest models for imitation; I should consider the speeches…
— Thomas Jefferson
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If you can't explain something in a few words, try fewer.
— Robert Breault
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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
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Brevity in writing is the best insurance for its perusal.
— Rudolf Virchow
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Brevity may be the soul of wit, but not when someone's saying "I love you.
— Judith Viorst
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For effective communication, use brevity. Jesus said, 'Follow me.' Now that's brief! He could be brief because of all that he was that he didn't…
— Jim Rohn
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Realize that illness and other temporal setbacks often come to us from the hand of God our Lord, and are sent to help us know…
— Ignatius Loyola
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I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
— Baltasar Gracian
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I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity.
— Mohsin Hamid
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
— Michel de Montaigne
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It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Brevity is the soul of wit.
— William Shakespeare
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Good things, when short, are twice as good.
— Tom Stoppard
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Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
— Dorothy Parker
Who Wrote These Brevity Quotes
71 authors contributed a total of 86 Brevity Quotes, led by these top contributors: