Brevity Quote by Russell Baker

Brevity is the soul of wit.

— William Shakespeare

If brevity is the soul of wit then brevity and levity are the whole of it.

— Michael R. Burch

[S]ince brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.

— William Shakespeare

A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty.

— William Congreve

It is having in some measure a sort of wit to know how to use the wit of others.

— Stanisław I Leszczyński

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast. Yet it must be confessed that wit given an edge to sense, and recommends it…

— William Penn

Wit is absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

A small degree of wit, accompanied by good sense, is less tiresome in the long run than a great amount of wit without it.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nothing is so fatiguing as the life of a wit.

— Hester Lynch Piozzi

Genuine witticisms surprise those who say them as much as those who listen to them; they arise in us in spite of us, or,…

— Joseph Joubert

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.

— Alexander Pope

Whatever has "wit enough to keep it sweet" defies corruption and outlasts all time; but the wit must be of that outward and visible…

— Agnes Repplier