Quotes About Brevity

vocations almost always involve tasks that transcend a lifetime. They almost always involve throwing yourself into a historical process. They involve compensating for the brevity of life by finding membership in a historic commitment.

Good things come in small packages.

Good writing is lean and confident.

As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is that of little minds to use many words to say nothing.

Never say more than is necessary.

I made this [letter] very long, because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter.

Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.

If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.

Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

There's no sentence that's too short in the eyes of God.

Most novels, I find, are three times longer than they need to be. Very little happens, and I don't want to waste my time with them.

I like short records in general that you can swallow in one sitting.

He wrote short and he wrote often, which tended to obscure the fact that he wrote well. Unless it leads to obscurity, brevity is rarely praised (or employed) in the journals of, ah, serious literary criticism, and frequency is often equated with frivolity.

El matemático francés Blaise Pascal describió muy bien este problema en su célebre frase: "Lamento haber escrito esta carta tan larga, pero no tenía tiempo para hacerla más corta".

Concision is the sister of talent.

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

A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

This report, by its very length, defends itself against being read.

The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, and there are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independence. Yet, government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26,911 words.

To Dewey, if brevity was the soul of wit, stagecraft was the very center of politics.

want to cut to the absolute bone.

Screenwriting is made of brevity.

The old, slow, creaking descriptions are a thing of the past; today the rule is brevity - but every word must be supercharged, high-voltage.

Brother Joseph once asked Brother George A. Smith to close a meeting. Brother George A. said, "My prayers are too short." Said Joseph, "That is the reason I ask you." Let your prayers and sermons always be short, right to the point.