Brevity Quotes
+1God helps the brave.
- Friedrich
+1Brevity is the soul of wit.
- William Shakespeare
+1Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
- Dorothy Parker
+1Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
- Cicero
+1The fewer the words, the better the prayer.
- Martin Luther King
+1Good things, when short, are twice as good.
- Baltasar Gracian
+1Talk low, talk slow, and don’t say too much.
- John Wayne
+1Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words.
- Bible
+1Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.
- Branch Rickey
+1The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy.
- William Penn
+1Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Brevity may be the soul of wit, but not when someone’s saying “I love you.”
- Judith Viorst
+1It is my ambition to say in ten sentences; what others say in a whole book.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
+1Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
- Cicero
+1The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
- Thomas Jefferson
+1If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.
- Dennis Roth
+1There’s a great power in words, if you don’t hitch too many of them together.
- Josh Billings
+1It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
- Robert Southey
+1He replies nothing but monosyllables. I believe he would make three bites of a cherry.
- Rabelais
+1The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit.
- Francois Fenelon
+1If you can’t write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don’t have a clear idea.
- David Belasco
+1Four flowers The Sun Arose in Morning Glory with His Goldenrod Wanding Violet to Rose.
- Saiom Shriver
+1The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
- Blaise Pascal
+1Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.
- William Shakespeare
+1It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books what other men do not say in whole books.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
+1If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
- Robert Southey
+1In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.
- Sydney Smith
+1If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if fifteen minutes, three days; if half an hour, two days; if an hour, I am ready now.
- Woodrow Wilson
