Quotes About Terse

If I write something down, it's normally just a sharp one-liner.

Walter took the killer's notebook from his pocket and was about to open it when Nina gave him a sternly arched eyebrow and a terse shake of her head.

Whatever your advice, make it brief.

Whatever you advise, be as brief as possible.

Whatever your advice, make it brief.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Even though I've had the odd terse word to say about Donald Trump, I still get invited to events at the U.S. embassy. I always attend, because as long as they're prepared to hear the opposite viewpoint, then I'll never miss that chance when I can.

I'm not sorry about being rude if it gets to the point quicker.

This progressive effacement of human relationships is not without certain problems for the novel. How, in point of fact, would one handle the narration of those unbridled passions, stretching over many years, and at times making their effect felt on several generations? We're a long way from Wuthering Heights, to say the least. The novel form is not conceived for depicting indifference or nothingness; a flatter, more terse, and dreary discourse would need to be invented.

For a Politeness Monitor, these responses seemed awfully terse and uncommunicative, but who was I to judge?