Quotes About Brevity

Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time.

Jurists, with rare exceptions, are unconsciously and tenaciously averse to clarity and brevity.

Good things, when short, are twice as good.

The fewer the words, the better you're heard!

To write good poems is the secret of brevity.

One life - a little gleam of Time between two Eternities.

Omit needless words.

There's no point being at the airport longer than needed.

Comprendéis ahora por qué no me gustan las despedidas? Porque siempre son mucho más cortas de lo que uno desearía. Humillantemente cortas algunas veces.

Words are like sweets; too many of them make you sick.

When I tell people about the blooms, about how they open around nine and close before sunrise and do this just for one night, they always ask, Is that all? Yes. That's all.

Life is short, even in letter. (Vie, c'est court, Même en lettre)

O asla sümkürmez. Bir anlat?m biçimi bu:az ve öz.

Everyone on Twitter - everyone on the Internet - seems so damn certain. Brevity doesn't allow for nuance, and it's a nice complement to confidence.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

Faith! he must make his stories shorter, Or change his comrades once a quarter...

To say more is to say less.

I would have written something shorter, but I didn't have time.

In general, shorter is better. If you can encapsulate your idea into a single captivating sentence, you're halfway home.

And my poor fool is hanged. No, no life. / Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life, / And thou no breath at all? O, thou wilt come no more. / Never, never, never. Pray you, undo / This button. Thank you, sir. O, O, O, O!

Music. A flower in a vase on the tray. A January rose, it wouldn't last long, all big and full-blown like that. He loved things like this, fragile, that wouldn't last. She touched its silver-mauve petals, a hundred layers like an old-fashioned petticoat. The Japanese would say that's their elegance, the brevity of their beauty.

When you say three things, you say nothing.

You say 10 things, you say nothing.