Brevity Quotes

I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.", 1657)

I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it sho

When we fully understand the brevity of life, its fleeting joys and unavoidable pains; when we accep...

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

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

Against the censurers of brevity. - Something said briefly can be the fruit of much long thought: bu...

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending and to have the two as clo...

Quidquid praecipies, esto brevis.(Whatever advice you give, be brief.)

The fewer the words the better prayer.

I'd like to get away from earth awhileAnd then come back to it and begin over.May no fate wilfully m...

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

The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs which are brief and pithy.

From her character in the HBO miniseries: "The art of politics is the art of applying the seat of th...