Brevity Quotes

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Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes s

Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it?

Dreams Brevity Sweet Brief

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

Good things, when short, are twice as good.

Good things, when short, are twice as good.

Baltasar Gracian

I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a lon

I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.

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It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so sho

It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.

Ernest Hemingway

If I had more time, I would have written you a shorter lette

If I had more time, I would have written you a shorter letter.

Minimalism Simplicity Brevity Writing Physicist Mathematician 689

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, a

Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.

If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as w

If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams -- the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

Against the censurers of brevity. - Something said briefly c

Against the censurers of brevity. - Something said briefly can be the fruit of much long thought: but the reader who is a novice in this field, and has as yet reflected on it not at all, sees in everything said briefly something embryonic, not without censuring the author for having served him up such immature and unripened fare.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.

I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a s

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

My liege, and madam, to expostulateWhat majesty should be, w

My liege, and madam, to expostulateWhat majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time,Were nothing but to waste night, day and time.Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit,And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,I will be brief.

William Shakespeare

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The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who g

I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down.

Edward O. Wilson

Brevity is the soul of wit, and tediousness the limbs and ou

Brevity is the soul of wit, and tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes.

William Shakespeare

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences; what others say i

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences; what others say in a whole book.

Friedrich Nietzsche