Quotes About Brevity

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

Being able to write an idea down succinctly doesn't make that idea any better than one which rambles on a bit. It just comes to the point sooner.

Despite the brevity of its existence, La Isabela marked the beginning of an enormous change: the creation of the modern Caribbean landscape.

6. Round down.

Mortality is very brief but immeasurably important.

his bed was where they slept and where the great thing people warned about or giggled about took place. It was not so much painful as dull. Cee thought it would get better later. Better turned out to be simply more, and while the quantity increased, its pleasure lay in its brevity.

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

I was told to be accurate, be brief, and then be seated. ... So I promise I shall be brief as possible - no matter how long it takes me.

The best way to bring up some children is short.

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

Brevity is the soul of wit.

I have only made this letter rather long because I have not had time to make it shorter.

Life was too short, no matter how long you lived.

Life was too short, no matter how long you lived. -Ehlena's thoughts

There are risks in the sheer brevity of Twitter, and it's actually quite an elegant art reducing what you have to say to 140 characters, and it's something that I quite enjoy attempting to do.

After spending the last few years working on a serious novel set in Chechnya, I was drawn to both the brevity and casualness of Twitter, and wrote a series of tweets titled 'The Erotic Inner Life of Mr. Bates from Downton Abbey.'

Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.

Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.

I tweet, therefore my entire life has shrunk to 140 character chunks of instant event and predigested gnomic wisdom. And swearing.

To say more while saying less is the secret of being simple.

Vår stutte tid blir her.

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.

True brevity of expression consists in a man only saying what is worth saying, while avoiding all diffuse explanations of things which every one can think out for himself.

I can't be bothered with narrative. It takes too long for me to try to think of it.