Famous Quotes About Brevity By Reference

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Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

Hosea Ballou

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Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

Cicero

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

Cicero

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

William Shakespeare

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5

Good things, when short, are twice as good.

Baltasar Gracián y Morales

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6

I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.

Horace

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7

If 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

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8

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar -- that I call an achievement.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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10

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

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11

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

Tyron edwards

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12

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

Martin Luther

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The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit.

François Fénelon

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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

Thomas Jefferson

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There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

Josh Billings

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Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

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

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

Good things, when short, are twice as good.

I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.

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

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

It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar -- that I call an achievement.

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.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit.

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.