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| Brevity Quotes |
Antonio Porchia
Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.
Branch Rickey
Good things, when short, are twice as good.
Baltasar Gracian
The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
Blaise Pascal
If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.
Dennis Roth
Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.
Edsger Dijkstra
Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.
Hosea Ballou
If any man will draw up his case, and put his name at the foot of the first page, I will give him an immediate reply. Where he compels me to turn over the sheet, he must wait my leisure.
Lord Sandwich
Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
He replies nothing but monosyllables. I believe he would make three bites of a cherry.
Rabelais
It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
Robert Southey
The trick to writing an aphorism is to place a period at the point where you're inclined to say, "in other words...."
Robert Brault
What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Brevity is the soul of wit.
William Shakespeare