Brevity Quotes

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

Many things prevent knowledge, including the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life

The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.

This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

A parsimony of words prodigal of sense.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

Brevity in writing is the best insurance for its perusal.

The greatest surprise in life to me is the brevity of life.

Brevity - the sister of talent.

Brevity never fatigues; therefore, brevity is always a welcome guest.

it is the brevity of life which makes it tolerable; its experiences have value because they have an end.

The little things are what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.

You evidently feel that brevity is the soul of widowhood.

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

Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.

Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.

If you can't explain something in a few words, try fewer.

No weapons are more potent than brevity and simplicity.

Let us return to 'no'. It has the charm of brevity.

It was almost funny. Life seemed downright accidental in its brevity, and death a punch line to a lousy joke.

Brevity: To say at once whatever is to be said.