Brevity Quote by compiled by John Timbs Anonymous

it is the brevity of life which makes it tolerable; its experiences have value because they have an end.

— Winifred Holtby

“It's not my accent, but my brevity makes me stylish.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Life is too short to waste being a productive member of society.”

— Sol Luckman

This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity.

— Brandon Sanderson

If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.

— Woodrow Wilson

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

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

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

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

A drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

— William Strunk, Jr

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

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