Brevity Quotes

86 Brevity quotes by 71 unique authors

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
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
I strive to be brief, and I become obscure. — Baltasar Gracian
I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity. — Mohsin Hamid
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul. — Michel de Montaigne
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Be sincere; be brief; be seated. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Brevity is the soul of wit. — William Shakespeare
Good things, when short, are twice as good. — Tom Stoppard
Brevity is the soul of lingerie. — Dorothy Parker
The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth. However elegant and memorable, brevity can never, in the nature of things, do justice… — Aldous Huxley
I confess to wincing every so often at a poorly chosen word, a mangled sentence, an expression of emotion that seems indulgent or overly practiced.… — Barack Obama
The old, slow, creaking descriptions are a thing of the past; today the rule is brevity - but every word must be supercharged, high-voltage. — Yevgeny Zamyatin
That a thing made by hand, the work and thought of a single craftsman, can endure much longer than its maker, through centuries in fact,… — Susan Vreeland
The word itself has another color. It’s not a word with any resonance, although the e was once pronounced. There is only the bump now… — William H. Gass
The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomime! Now I shall… — Iris Murdoch
...when a sentence is made stronger, it usually becomes shorter. Thus, brevity is a by-product of vigor. — William Strunk, Jr.
[Six principles that make for a good story:] 1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of a political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful descriptions of persons… — Anton Chekhov
Let us return to 'no'. It has the charm of brevity. — Sharon Lee
This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity. — Brandon Sanderson
How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the… — Arthur Schopenhauer
This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures. — Rudyard Kipling
Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it? — Stephen King
My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing… — William Shakespeare
It was almost funny. Life seemed downright accidental in its brevity, and death a punch line to a lousy joke. — Maureen Johnson

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