"What is the real function, the essential function, the supreme function, of language? Isn't it merely to convey ideas and emotions? Certainly. Then if we can do it with words of fonetic brevity and compactness, why keep the present cumbersome forms?"
More Brevity Quotes
- Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness. — Jean de la Bruyere
- Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Whatever advice you give, be short. — Horace
- The breaking up of the terrestrial globe, this it is we witness. It doubtless began a long time ago, and… — Eduard Suess
- Teach him a certain refinement in sorting out and selecting his arguments, with an affection for relevance and so for… — Michel de Montaigne
- He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity… — Bertrand Russell