Top 3 Laconic Quotes - Quoted Daily

The connoisseur might be defined as a laconic art historian, and the art historian as a loquacious connoisseur.

Art, Might, Laconic

Erwin Panofsky (1955). “Meaning in the visual arts: papers in and on art history”

Mathematicians are a bit like the laconic Vermonter who, when asked if he's lived in the state his whole life, replies, "Not yet."

Mathematics, States, Laconic

John Allen Paulos (2007). “Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don't Add Up”, p.8, Macmillan

I love the laconic. Clearly, I am not of their number.

Numbers, Laconic

Renata Adler (2013). “Speedboat”, p.64, New York Review of Books

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