Quotes About Conciseness

An inspiring vision meets three criteria. It is specific, concise and consistent.

Do you ever notice how many words we waste?

Quotations are able to illustrate in a few words what is difficult to explain in many.

What's the riddle? Me talking so much And saying so little

Humor is what happens when we're told the truth quicker and more directly than we're used to.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter.

A good speech, like a woman's skirt, should be long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest. I have been asked to give my address in the remaining five minutes. That I can do! Here it is: 10 Carlton Gardens, London, England.

The recipe for a good speech includes some shortening.

Kiss principle: Keep it simple, stupid.

If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour.

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

True eloquence consists of saying all that should be said, and that only.

Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.

They think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.

He replies nothing but monosyllables. I believe he would make three bites of a cherry.

Conciseness is the sister of talent.

The secret of being tiresome is in telling everything.

When one has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

"Plain English" - everybody loves it, demands it - from the other fellow.

True eloquence consists of saying all that should be, not all that could be, said.

There is but one art, to omit.