Brevity Quote by Philip Sidney Download Open image “Great captains do never use long orations when it comes to the point of execution.” — Philip Sidney ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Brevity Captains Execution Long Use
The mark of a great shiphandler is never getting into situations that require great shiphandling. — Ernest King Copy Share Image
Admirals extolled for standing still, or doing nothing with a deal of skill. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
The wind is never for the sailor who knows not to what port he is bound. — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
You never get a straight answer from captains. You should know that by now. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Laws are not made like lime-twigs or nets, to catch everything that toucheth them; but rather like sea-marks, to guide from shipwreck the ignorant… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Whatever comes out of despair cannot bear the title of valor, which should be lifted up to such a height that holding all things… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive of virtue;… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
He travels safe and not unpleasantly who is guarded by poverty and guided by love. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
There is a certain delicacy which in yielding conquers; and with a pitiful look makes one find cause to crave help one's self. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
“Stella, the only planet of my light, Light of my life, and life of my desire, Chief good, whereto my hope doth only aspire,… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Confidence in one's self is the chief nurse of magnanimity, which confidence, notwithstanding, doth not leave the care of necessary furniture for it; and… — Philip Sidney 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
