Quotes About Brevity

Answers of less than 30 seconds are generally insufficient, but answers over three minutes are too long.

A good short story is a work of art which daunts us in proportion to its brevity.... No inspiration is too noble for it; no amountof hard work is too severe for it.

It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.

Robert Creely's poems have two main characteristics. 1) They are short; 2) they are not short enough.

Since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.

My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day and time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.

MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thought.

Get to the bloody point!' She

While I know you (and I) hold brevity to be the soul of wit, description should not be the second-class citizen

get to the point quickly.

The best way to be boring is to include everything.

From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.

Life is just a short period of time in which we are alive.

Who needs such a long intestine, anyway?

It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.

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.

Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.(When I labor to be brief, I become obscure.)

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

A code may be used for secrecy, but also for brevity and truncation. Shorthand is a code in precisely this way and so, often, is modern-day texting.

For effective communication, use brevity. Jesus said, 'Follow me.' Now that's brief! He could be brief because of all that he was that he didn't have to say.

La vida es un breve periodo de tiempo durante el que estamos vivos.

I'm into short emails.

If human lives be, for their very brevity, sweet, then beast lives are sweeter still...

Vigorous writing is concise.